ROS Basics: Program Robots! – Free Udemy Courses

ROS is a robotic middleware that offers a collection of packages for commonly used functionality, low-level control, hardware abstraction, and message passing.

ROS is all you need to transition from a hobbyist to a professional developer in the robotics domain! ROS is currently being used by hundreds of universities and tech start-ups around the world.

The ROS powers a huge number of wheeled mobile robots, manipulators, aerial vehicles, and much more! Research & Development is not the only place where ROS plays a major role. The current list of companies using ROS includes major players like Segway, ABB, Clearpath Robotics, etc., and is growing every day!

This course covers the basics of ROS. It introduces you to the world of professional robotics programming! You will learn the tools and services that the ROS ecosystem offers in a structured and power-packed manner. If you master the content presented in this course, there is nothing to stop you from learning to program and use ANY robot that runs the ROS core libraries.

What this course doesn’t cover:

• Robotics concepts
• Algorithms for planning, perception, etc. We won’t dive deeply into what kind of algorithms are implemented in each of the roles of libraries
• Robotics hardware

The basics of ROS are already presented in the course. You can expect new content to be added regularly! This will include

• GUI tools
• URDF, TF
• Using pose estimation, localization, and navigation libraries
• Model a robot using 3D design software and export it for usage in ROS
• Simulation of a robot model in a real physics environment using a Gazebo, vrep, etc
• Visualize a robot’s states like velocity, position, and sensory information using rviz