[ros-users] ROS Day @ISR - University of Coimbra

Dejan Pangercic dejan.pangercic at gmail.com
Tue Feb 8 01:05:06 UTC 2011


Gonçalo,
what about the video:
http://www.youtube.com/user/iasTUMUNICH#p/u/5/s9Dfd8dsnB0 (I got the
original as well, kudos to my colleague Mike).

D.
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Raul Correal <rcorreal at tcpsi.es> wrote:
>
> Hi Gonçalo,
>
> I posted some of my works with Gazebo in the GazeboUsers website. Have a
> look there, I hope it helps. I've got higher resolution versions of these
> images also.
>
> http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/wiki/GazeboUsers
>
> Regards,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gonçalo Cabrita
> To: User discussions
> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 3:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [ros-users] ROS Day @ISR - University of Coimbra
> Hi everyone!
> The ROS day at ISR is happening! I made a wiki page for the event at
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/Events/ROSatISRCoimbra
> The reason for this mail however is that I would like to refer Stage and
> Gazebo on my presentation, however I have never used Gazebo and I need a
> cool screenshot.
> Could anyone send me a nice screenshot from Gazebo running? Something that
> will make the audience jaws drop!
> Thanks in advance!
> Gonçalo Cabrita
> ISR University of Coimbra
> Portugal
>
> 2010/11/25 Gonçalo Cabrita <goncabrita at gmail.com>
>>
>> Hi Dejan!
>> Just talked with the guys from the MRL, and it seems they are all very
>> excited about learning ROS :D
>> I now have a pretty good collection of presentations to make my ROS talk.
>> The problem will be to keep it short! I would like to go from what ROS is
>> and what it's for to talking about our repository and code licensing.
>> For the practical part I believe that what you suggested is perfect, I'm
>> not sure we'll have time for more than that. Anyways we just want to go into
>> the basics, we don't want people to get the idea ROS is very complicated.
>> Also we should keep it generic in order to attract people from all areas,
>> although this is the Institute of Systems and Robotics we have a wide range
>> of research, some people will be very interested in manipulation while
>> others will be interested in mobile robot navigation. We also have a strong
>> computer vision group. But we believe that if we show them the basic stuff
>> they can get the feel of things and just dig deeper into the areas that
>> interest each of them.
>> We have a bunch of Roombas here but I'm not sure some people would be
>> interested on working with them on the workshop. Still I would like to get
>> people working with something that actually moves. After all we're in this
>> business cause we all love toys :D
>> Gonçalo Cabrita
>> ISR - University of Coimbra
>> Portugal
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Dejan Pangercic
>> <dejan.pangercic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Gonçalo,
>>> great idea, you shall get in my colleagues from
>>> http://paloma.isr.uc.pt/mrl/index.php
>>> as well.
>>>
>>> As Ken already pointed out, we recently carried out a ROS Fall School
>>> for 60+ ROS newbies and we thus have a bunch of theoretical as well as
>>> practical material that you may recycle. I especially recommend you to
>>> have a look at talks 2 to including 7 in the following list:
>>> http://www.ros.org/wiki/Events/CoTeSys-ROS-School/#All_Talks
>>>
>>> For the practical part you wonna start with these:
>>> http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/Tutorials
>>> http://www.ros.org/wiki/tf/Tutorials
>>> http://www.ros.org/wiki/actionlib/Tutorials
>>>
>>> And if you want a bit more advanced stuff you can have them make Day1
>>> and Day2 tutorials from the Fall School:
>>> http://www.ros.org/wiki/Events/CoTeSys-ROS-School/Day1
>>> http://www.ros.org/wiki/Events/CoTeSys-ROS-School/Day2
>>>
>>> cheers, D.
>>> 2010/11/24 Gonçalo Cabrita <goncabrita at gmail.com>:
>>> > Hi everyone!
>>> > For the past few months me and my colleague Pedro Sousa have been
>>> > learning
>>> > ROS and developing nodes for most of the hardware we have on our lab.
>>> > We are
>>> > now working on documentation and cleaning up our repository.
>>> > We believe that our next step should be to share what we have learned
>>> > so far
>>> > with the rest of the ISR-Coimbra community of professors, students and
>>> > researchers. For this purpose we came up with the ROS Day.
>>> > Our goal is to first of all introduce people in the ISR-Coimbra to ROS,
>>> > explaining what it can do, what it is meant for and how they can
>>> > benefit
>>> > from it (and how we can all benefit if we all use the same tools).
>>> > Secondly
>>> > we intend to speed up the learning process of our colleagues.
>>> > To achieve our goals we were thinking about dividing the ROS Day in 2
>>> > parts.
>>> > A first session will consist of a presentation with some Q&A at the
>>> > end. A
>>> > second session would be somewhat of a workshop where people could bring
>>> > their laptops and we could all do some exploring and coding.
>>> > So my question is if anyone has had any experience with this sort of
>>> > thing
>>> > before? What kind of topics would be interesting to approach for a
>>> > first
>>> > contact with ROS? (Always keeping in mind we have just started
>>> > ourselves!!!)
>>> > Also if anyone has got any materials on this subject (like
>>> > presentations)
>>> > they would like to share we would be very thankful.
>>> > Any comments and ideas are also welcome :)
>>> > Gonçalo Cabrita
>>> > ISR - University of Coimbra
>>> > Portugal
>>> >
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> PhD Student/Researcher
>>> Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group
>>> Technische Universität München
>>> Telephone: +49 (89) 289-26908
>>> E-Mail: dejan.pangercic at cs.tum.edu
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