ROS for Beginners: Basics, Motion, and OpenCV

ROS for Beginners: Basics, Motion, and OpenCV, available at $109.99, has an average rating of 4.51, with 178 lectures, 3 quizzes, based on 4723 reviews, and has 24166 subscribers.

You will learn about Understand ROS Ecosystem (topics, nodes, messages, services, actionlib) Develop simple applications to control robot motion Understand how a position and orientation are represented in ROS Recognize how to develop a C++/Python ROS project Develop simple computer vision programs with ROS and OpenCV This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginner ROS developers and users or Students at Universities learning ROS or Anyone interest to know about the basic concepts of ROS or Curious about robotics or Whoever wants to learn ROS without wasting time It is particularly useful for Beginner ROS developers and users or Students at Universities learning ROS or Anyone interest to know about the basic concepts of ROS or Curious about robotics or Whoever wants to learn ROS without wasting time.

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Summary

Title: ROS for Beginners: Basics, Motion, and OpenCV

Price: $109.99

Average Rating: 4.51

Number of Lectures: 178

Number of Quizzes: 3

Number of Published Lectures: 153

Number of Published Quizzes: 3

Number of Curriculum Items: 188

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 163

Number of Practice Tests: 1

Number of Published Practice Tests: 1

Original Price: $199.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Understand ROS Ecosystem (topics, nodes, messages, services, actionlib)
Develop simple applications to control robot motion
Understand how a position and orientation are represented in ROS
Recognize how to develop a C++/Python ROS project
Develop simple computer vision programs with ROS and OpenCV

Who Should Attend

Beginner ROS developers and users
Students at Universities learning ROS
Anyone interest to know about the basic concepts of ROS
Curious about robotics
Whoever wants to learn ROS without wasting time

Target Audiences

Beginner ROS developers and users
Students at Universities learning ROS
Anyone interest to know about the basic concepts of ROS
Curious about robotics
Whoever wants to learn ROS without wasting time

News and Updates.

This is the best-seller course in ROS on Udemy.

My course has been upgradedto the latest version of ROS, ROS Noetic, with several new videos explaining the fundamental concepts of ROS with hands-on illustrations. It will also give you the required skills to later learn ROS2 and navigation stack, as presented in my two other courses.

Why am I teaching this course?

Typically, new ROS users encounter many difficulties when they start programming with ROS. Although there are so many tutorials, there are a lot of tips and practical issues that could not be easily found in tutorials and are not discussed and are left to the developer’s luck. Although there is much documentation for ROS, several are very broad, and it takes too long to grasp the concepts well. This is where this course plays a role and provides an added value by providing a focused introduction to the BASICS of ROS. The course not only presents the basic concepts of ROS but also addresses two essential fields in robotics: (1) motion and (2) perception. We will apply the general concepts of ROS in the context of robotic motion and perception. The course will provide you with an opportunity to learn about OpenCV, the most powerful computer vision library that promotes robotic perception.

My approach is to take you STEP BY STEP through the roadmap of learning ROS so that you learn the concepts in the proper order and help you build an experience from one lecture to the other.

This is a course that provides the fundamental concepts and basics of the Robot Operating System (ROS). This course intends to give beginner ROS users a quick and focused introduction to ROS basics and practical tips that help them better manage their first projects with ROS in C++ and Python. In particular, developing with C++ in ROS requires special care compared to Python to configure the compilation and runtime environment well. This is presented clearly in this course.

There are mainly three majors steps in the course:

ROS Basics and Foundation: This deals with the general ROS concepts everyone has to know, like ROS topics, Services, Messages, and Nodes, …
Motion in ROS:We apply the concepts learned in Step 1 to make a robot move. We will develop a different trajectory in the context of an excellent example simulating a cleaning robot. In particular, we illustrate how to represent the pose (position and orientation) of a robot in ROS and how to send a motion control message to make the robot move. We clearly demonstrate how to implement linear, rotational, and spiral motions and how all of these can be integrated to simulate a cleaning application. This part will give you the background you need to understand robot kinematics and how motion is represented in ROS.
Perception in ROS: I will introduce how a robot sees the environment using a camera, how the images are collected in ROS, and how they are processed in OpenCV.
Arduino:you will also learn how to use Arduino boards and sensors with ROS using the ROSSERIAL Arduino interface. This will allow you to integrate any Arduino sensor and board into your robot and robotics applications.

Based on my experience, these are the most important things any new ROS user must know to go further with their own robotics project.

I also provide some hands-on activities that allow the learner to assess his understanding and push him to practice the concepts he learned.

My experience with ROS

I have been programming with ROS for many years both in academic and industrial projects. I am very passionate about developing a program with ROS. I have also been teaching ROS at the University and providing training programs. I am the leader of the Robotics and Internet-of-Things Lab at Prince Sultan University and also a consultant for Gaitech Robotics. I have developed many ROS packages for robots and drones. I have been leading international scientific activities around ROS, and in particular, I am the editor of three volumes of books with Springer entitled Robot Operating System, The Complete Reference. I gained a lot of experience in what difficulties new users encounter in learning ROS, which contributed to pinning right to the point addressing these problems through the different lectures of the course.

Welcome to the World of ROS.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: What is this course about?

Lecture 2: [IMPORTANT] What is you face errors and need to debug and find solutions?

Lecture 3: About the Instructor

Chapter 2: ROS:  How did it revolutionize robotics software development

Lecture 1: About this section (slides attached to resources)

Lecture 2: Introduction

Lecture 3: Why did I decided to use ROS in my work?

Lecture 4: The Robot Life Cycle

Lecture 5: ROS Impact

Lecture 6: Self-Driving Car Use Case

Lecture 7: ROS Evolution

Lecture 8: ROS Distributions (version) over Time

Lecture 9: ROS Architecture

Lecture 10: ROS Basic Concepts and Demo

Lecture 11: ROS Communication Paradigms (Topics/Services/ActionLib)

Lecture 12: ROS Path Planning and Navigation

Lecture 13: Limitation of ROS

Lecture 14: ROS2

Lecture 15: [OPTIONAL] Some Contributions to ROS

Chapter 3: [NEW] Setting your environment with ROS Noetic

Lecture 1: Install ROS Slides

Lecture 2: Install ROS Noetic on Ubuntu 20.04

Lecture 3: Create your catkin workspace with ROS Noetic

Lecture 4: Clone the right GitHub Repository for the ROS Noetic distribution

Lecture 5: Testing your installation with C++ nodes

Lecture 6: Testing and fixing installation with Python nodes

Lecture 7: [UPDATE] Note: My recommendation for the editor to use

Lecture 8: [IMPORTANT] BEFORE START WORKING ON THE COURSE

Chapter 4: [LEGACY-OPTIONAL] Installation and Environment Setup

Lecture 1: Note about this section

Lecture 2: [OPTIONAL] ROS Installation Tips

Lecture 3: Install a Ubuntu Virtual Machine on Mac-OS using VM-Fusion

Lecture 4: UPDATE NOTE ABOUT ROS DISTRIBUTION

Lecture 5: Install ROS (Melodic) on Ubuntu (Bionic)

Lecture 6: Which Integrated Development Environment (ID) to use with ROS?

Lecture 7: [UPDATE] Note: My recommendation of editor to use

Chapter 5: Create a ROS Workspace and a ROS Package

Lecture 1: Section Note Update

Lecture 2: ROS Workspace and ROS Package (Setting up your ROS projects)

Lecture 3: Wrapping up

Lecture 4: Note about the next lecture

Lecture 5: [LEGACY] Setup ROS (Kinetic+Melodic) Project of the course using GitHub

Chapter 6: [NEW] ROS Computation Graph

Lecture 1: What is a ROS Computation Graph?

Lecture 2: ROS Computation Graph Life Cycle

Lecture 3: Start the ROS Master Node

Lecture 4: How to run a new node (executable) in ROS?

Lecture 5: What happens when we start a new ROS node?

Lecture 6: Adding a teleop node to make the robot move

Lecture 7: Get the information of a node and the information of a topic

Lecture 8: The content of the motion message /tutle1/cmd_vel

Lecture 9: Understand the structure of a ROS message

Lecture 10: How to show the message structure on ROS command line?

Lecture 11: Publish a message on a topic from a command line

Lecture 12: Visualize the ROS Computation Graph using ros_rqt_graph

Lecture 13: Demo: Starting Turtlesim and checking information about the nodes and topics

Lecture 14: Demo: Showing the content of ROS messages published

Lecture 15: Demo: Understand the pose topic

Lecture 16: Demo: What is the benefit of using ROS?

Lecture 17: Demo: Publishing a message from a command line using rostopic pub

Lecture 18: Demo: rqt_graph

Lecture 19: NOTE

Lecture 20: [OLD] The ROS Master Node (OPTIONAL – KEPT FOR STUDENT NOTES)

Lecture 21: [OLD] ROS Computation Graph: Nodes, Topics (OPTIONAL – KEPT FOR STUDENT NOTES)

Chapter 7: ROS Topics

Lecture 1: ROS Topics Overview

Lecture 2: Question: what happens if ROS Master crashes?

Lecture 3: Guidelines to Write a Publisher and a Subscriber in ROS

Lecture 4: Overview of the Talker/Listener Application (ROS Hello World Example)

Lecture 5: Write a Publisher Node in Python

Lecture 6: Write a Subscriber Node in Python

Lecture 7: [DEMO] Talker/Listener in Python

Lecture 8: Write a Publisher/Subscriber Node in C++

Lecture 9: [DEMO] Talker/Listener in C++

Lecture 10: Do-It-Yourself Assignment Explanation

Lecture 11: About the next two lectures

Lecture 12: [OLD-OPTIONAL] Write a ROS Publisher and Subscriber in C++

Lecture 13: [OLD-OPTIONAL] Write a ROS Publisher and Subscriber in Python

Chapter 8: ROS Messages

Lecture 1: Create Custom ROS Messages: Overview

Lecture 2: [Demo] Create a Custom ROS Message: Implementation

Lecture 3: [DEMO] IoTSensor Custom Message Publisher/Subscriber Applications

Chapter 9: ROS Services

Lecture 1: What is a ROS Service?

Lecture 2: Understand ROS Services with Turtlesim

Lecture 3: [DEMO] ROS Services with Turtlesim

Lecture 4: AddTwoInts Service Overview

Lecture 5: Create the Service File and Request/Response Messages

Lecture 6: Write ROS Service (Client/Server) in Python

Lecture 7: [DEMO] Write ROS Service (Client/Server) in Python

Lecture 8: [DEMO] Writing a ROS Service (Client/Service) in C++

Chapter 10: [NEW] Motion in ROS (updated with ROS Noetic)

Lecture 1: Note about this updated section

Instructors

Anis Koubaa
Professor of Computer Science

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4 stars: 1683 votes
5 stars: 2158 votes

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