How can you test the ROS programs you are developing for a robot? If you are building a program for a robot, you have to make sure that it works properly, and for that, you need some tests. If you think that you should test your programs directly on the robot, think again. Testing on

Hey ROS Developers! In this post, we are going step-by-step to install ROS Melodic in a fresh Ubuntu 18.04. I’m using a regular desktop computer, the one I use to support me on ROS development. Let’s do it! Step 1 – Configuration The first step is adding the ROS repository to your ubuntu sources.list

In this short post, we will show how to avoid a very common mistake most ROS beginners make: missing execute permission on the Python file. Step 1: Create a Project (ROSject) on ROSDS Head to http://rosds.online and create a project with a similar configuration as the one shown below. You can change the details as you like, but

In order to create ROS programs, you will need a C++ or Python code editor. In this chapter, we are going to show you a list of integrated environments for programming ROS with those languages. Many others do exist, but we are putting the most complete and easy to start with ones here. Note: since

In this post, we will see what Rviz is all about and how to use it. We are going to use a ROS1 installation for this, but you don’t need to install ROS, as we will use the ROS Development Studio (ROSDS), an online platform that provides access to ROS1 or ROS2 computers and other powerful