new address: https://bitbucket.org/grupomecatronica/amr_firststeps/src/master/
Summary: This page presents a four-day intensive course on Robot Operating System (ROS) for under-graduate and graduate students. Well-established tools, such as GitHub and the simulator V-REP, and theoretical concepts like navigation and obstacle avoidance algorithms are introduced in a just-in-time learning fashion. The last day of the course is dedicated to a racing competition with small wheeled robots, where all teams' vehicles share the same racing track in a simulated environment. Everything that is learned along the course is employed to successfully complete the laps as fast as possible.
Click on the figure below for accessing the video of the first edition:
- Slides that support tools/theory introduction;
- Linux/ROS cheat table summarized info for beginners. to be printed prior course kick-off;
- Source code github repository. (You are here!)
- V-REP: V-REP course.
- V-REP: mobile robot tutorial.
March 2016: The 1st edition gathered Computer Science, Mechanic and Electric Engineering students at the University of São Paulo, in São Carlos. Participants adopted a constructive and enthusiastic attitude, as well as a strong endeavor in fulfilling the proposed tasks. Click here for the final competition video.