Zero to ROS

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction with Tiziano and Chris

Chapter 2: Setup your Work Environment

Lecture 1: Install Linux on the Virtual Machine

Lecture 2: Setup ROS

Lecture 3: The Catkin Workspace

Lecture 4: Setup your Github account

Lecture 5: Discord server

Lecture 6: How to submit your assignments

Chapter 3: ROS Hello World

Lecture 1: Hello World with topics in ROS

Chapter 4: Learn hands-on with your first ROS project

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Create your first ROS Package

Lecture 3: Create your first ROS Publishers (in Python): Cylinder's height and radius

Lecture 4: Verify published topics in the command window

Lecture 5: How to get to the Area and Volume calculated from the available topics

Lecture 6: Create your first ROS Subscriber (in Python)

Lecture 7: Create your custom ROS Message

Lecture 8: Create your Calculator Node

Lecture 9: Putting all together: get the Volume of a Cylinder with ROS (and Python)

Lecture 10: Create your first ROS Launch file

Lecture 11: Debugging your project with rqt

Chapter 5: Assignment: Create a simple calculator

Chapter 6: Your First Robot Simulator

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Control a simple Robot with your Keyboard

Lecture 3: Getting the robot's pose

Lecture 4: Example: generate a square pattern for your Turtlesim

Lecture 5: How does logging work in ROS: ROSLOG

Lecture 6: How to setup and change parameters in ROS: ROSPARAM

Lecture 7: Calculate the error between two angles

Chapter 7: Assignment: 2D Navigation

Chapter 8: Introduction to Gazebo and Rviz

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Introduction to Gazebo and Rviz

Lecture 3: Create a Robot Description file Xacro

Lecture 4: Launch file for a Robot Simulation

Lecture 5: Get your Xacro file ready for Gazebo

Lecture 6: Reference Systems and the TF library

Lecture 7: Gazebo 3D environment and the TF visualization in Rviz

Lecture 8: Get the robot's position and orientation by listening to the TF Publisher

Lecture 9: Example: how to import a Gazebo World in your project

Chapter 9: Assignment: 2D Navigation with Gazebo

Chapter 10: Robot Perception

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: How to add a Range Finder to your robot simulator using Xacro and URDF

Lecture 3: How to add the Lidar plugin to your Gazebo simulation

Lecture 4: How to visualize the Laser Scan plugin in Rviz

Lecture 5: Creating the node that converts /scan into Sonar /range topic

Lecture 6: Visualize the Sonar /range in Gazebo and Rviz

Chapter 11: Assignment: create 3 sonars

Chapter 12: Obstacle Avoidance

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Example preview in action

Lecture 3: Coding the Obstacle Avoidance Algorithm

Lecture 4: Running the example and debugging with rqt

Chapter 13: Final Assignment

Chapter 14: Bonus Section

Lecture 1: Bonus Lecture