Hi Gonçalo Thanks for your reply. Just to inquire, robots as Pioneer, Khepera, Roomba and Mindstorms etc has been done in ROS, right ? Best regards Arkapravo 2010/7/17 Gonçalo Cabrita > Hi Arkapravo, > > I think the answer to your question lies in this tutorial: > > http://www.ros.org/wiki/navigation/Tutorials/RobotSetup > > Basically you'll have to design yourself the odometry source and the base > controller blocks represented in the diagram, which usually come in the same > ROS node (which you'll have to create for your own robot). > > If you are using a popular robot platform it is likely that someone has > already made that node for ROS. > > Best regards, > > Gonçalo Cabrita > ISR - University of Coimbra > Portugal > > >