Lecture Slides

W1L1 - Lecture 1 - Intro to the Course (RB) - Tagged.pdf

Reading List

Required Reading:

• ROS.org - Main Website
• ROS Wiki - Documentation
• ROS Tutorials

Recommended Books:

• Probabilistic Robotics
• Mastering ROS

Problem with Robotics

• Reinventing the wheel

ROS

ROS abstracts away low-level hardware, improving modularity and reusability.

• Distributed computation:
  • Modern robot systems use software that runs across multiple processes and computers.
• Software reuse:
  • Robotics research has built up a valuable collection of proven algorithms for navigation, motion planning, mapping, and other common tasks.
• Rapid testing:
  • By separating hardware control from high-level processing and decision making, we can use simulators to test the system's behavior without physical hardware.
  • ROS provides simple methods to record and play back sensor data and messages as ROS bags. This allows us to test different processing approaches using the same recorded data.