ROS-Industrial Developer's Training - Basic+Advanced Training

Course Overview:

Mon 10 Dec 15.00-17.00 - Virtual Machine and/or Ubuntu system check (MANDATORY)

Tue 11 Dec  09.00-17.00 - Basic Training Day 1

Wed 12 Dec 09.00-17.00 - Basic Training Day 2

Thu 13 Dec  09.00-17.00 - Basic Training Day 3

Fri 14 Dec    09.00-17.00 - Advanced Training

Costs include lunch, morning and afternoon tea for training days.

Course Prerequisites: Linux/Ubuntu familiarity, C++ programming experience and a desire to program robots!

Limited availability: For non-members, government members, or for seats in excess of your limit, the training fee is per attendee. Space for the training is limited and will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

Equipment required:

Upon confirmation, you are required to ensure that you have a laptop that has either:

1. Native Ubuntu 16.04 and ROS Kinetic installed and you have downloaded the training material here

or

2. If it's a windows / Apple laptop you are running VM and have downloaded the training material here.

Please view the PC setup requirements here: http://ros-industrial.github.io/industrial_training/_source/setup/PC-Setup---ROS-Kinetic.html

Course Content: 

ROS-Industrial Developers Training - Basic (3 Days)

Day 1 (focuses on introductory ROS skills)

o ROS Setup, Catkin, Installing Packages

o Break

o Creating Packages/Nodes, Topics, Messages

o Lunch

o Services, Actions

o Break

o Launch Files, Parameter

Day 2

o URDF, Workcell XACRO

o Break

o TF, Build a MoveIt! Package

o Lunch

o Motion Planning Using Rviz, C++

o Break

o Introduction to Descartes Path Planning

o Introduction to Perception

Day 3

o Day 1 and 2 Recap

o Break

o Lab Introduction, Labs (1) Pick and Place Application – Simulation Only, (2) Descartes

Application using UR10

o Lunch

o Work on Lab Applications

ROS-Industrial Developers Training - Advanced (1 Day)

Day 4

Users have a number of topics to choose from, depending on their area of interest, including:

o Advanced motion planning

o 3D point cloud processing

o 2D image analysis

o ROS tools for debugging