2-Day Intensive and Practical Workshop on

Singapore: 22 & 23 Sep 2016 Holiday Inn Singapore Orchard City Centre Special feature of this workshop: The workshop is of practical nature. Topics relevant to create, run and debug robotic systems with ROS — the widely used open robotic operating system — will be covered in the context of a simulated robot. This is an interesting workshop where you create your own code to interface with a simulated humanoid robot.

ROS: HANDS-ON WITH THE ROBOTIC OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER UBUNTU by DR JÜRGEN “JUXI” LEITNER

Australian Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision (ACRV) Queensland University of Technology

Kuala Lumpur: 19 & 20 Sep 2016 Sunway Putra Hotel Kuala Lumpur

Objectives of this workshop: The workshop aims to give the participants an introduction to ROS. It will have short presentations about specific topics within ROS followed by hands-on session, where attendees will be able to try and apply the presented knowledge on their own laptops. A variety of useful tools will be presented and the workshop will finish with some best practices and use cases of ROS in a variety of projects.

Outcome after the workshop: At the end of this workshop, attendees should be able to develop and deploy ROS environments in their own company or institutions.

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This is a practical workshop. Attendees are expected to bring their laptops to the workshop

ROS, short for robot operating system, is an open-source, meta-operating system for your robot. On one hand it provides services you would expect an operating system to provide, including hardware abstraction, device controllers, common (IO) functionality, message passing, distributed and parallel computing. On the other hand ROS provides a number of tools, libraries and plugins for roboticists to develop, run, maintain and debug code running across their robotic systems.

The workshop aims to give the participants an introduction to ROS - the robot operating system. It will have short presentations about specific topics within ROS followed by hands-on session, where attendees will be able to try and apply the presented knowledge on their own laptops. A variety of useful tools will be presented and the workshop will finish with some best practices and use cases of ROS in a variety of projects. Attendees will learn about ROS and should at the end of this workshop be able to develop and deploy ROS environments in their own company or institutions. Day 1: Session 1: What is ROS?

ROS nodes and messages. Creating your own nodes and messages. Practical hands-on.

Session 2: The ROS Workspace. Using C++ and Python to create your own nodes and packages. Practical hands-on

Session 3 & 4: ROS Tools Rosbag, urdf, rviz, rqt_graph Practical hands-on with nodes and messages and create your own code to interface with a simulated humanoid robot

Day 2: Session 1 & 2: More ROS Tools

tf, logging, launch files, parameters, debugging in ROS Practical hands-on with these tools, with examples and exercises for attendees to experiment

Session 3 & 4: Best Practices Services/libraries/actions How to deploy ROS Is it useful in your setting? Integrating with other systems Opencv, pcl, yarp….

ROS was designed to be maximally flexible, starting with the mantra, "we don't wrap your main()." With a few years under our collective belt, the community has matured to a point where "best practices" are in demand. We're not talking about standards, but rather statements of how best to achieve common tasks with ROS. Best practices are advice to developers on how to design, build, and configure ROS systems, with the goal of improving efficiency, interoperability, and shared understanding of those systems.

Workshop Objectives and Outome

Introduction to ROS

The workshop is aimed at computer, electrical, electronic, mechanical and mechatronic engineers and researchers who have interest in robotics in general and ROS in specific. Post-graduate students with an interest in robotics will also benefit tremendously from this workshop. Attendees are expected to have basic operating systems knowledge (file system and directories), basic programming knowledge (either c++ or Python) and basic knowledge in robotics (kinematics)

DR JÜRGEN “JUXI” LEITNER Juxi Leitner is a research fellow at Australian Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision (ACRV) hosted at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in sunny Brisbane, Australia. He has been working with robotic systems in research institutes for more than 10 years. His research work focusses on the intersection of robotics, computer vision and machine learning. Before joining the ACRV node in Peter Corke's lab at QUT he worked at the Dalle Molle Institute for AI (IDSIA) Robotics Lab on the iCub humanoid. He received a PhD from the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) for his work on robotic learning for visual perception and actions on the iCub. Previously he worked on at the Advanced Concepts Team of the European Space Agency and before that studied Space Robotics in a Joint European Master Programme (SpaceMaster) at Aalto University (TKK) in Finland and the Kiruna Space Campus (LTU) in Sweden. Juxi has been engaged in a variety of workshops, tutorials and practical sessions at various levels with the overall goal to spark interest in robotics and programming.

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Who will benefit from this workshop

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