Programming for Robotics, Lecture 1: Introduction to ROS

In the first of five lectures, we will introduce the ROS architecture & philosophy; ROS master, nodes, and topics; Console commands; Catkin workspace and build system; Launch-files and the Gazebo simulator.

[@M_Nagy_]

This is such a beneficial series for ROS/Gazebo with C++! 👏 I have also applied for summer school this year. So excited to join it.

[@methods-SE]

Clear and concise descriptions... In the scientific way

[@shivohcn1684]

Thankyou for sharing. This is great 👌

[@FutureLOKJHI]

Thanks ETH

[@amnahebrahim3325]

Excellent lecture, but I'm wondering if the topic is the channel for a message or if it's the actual message itself?

[@ltybc425]

Thank you very much for sharing it!

[@leggedrobotics]

Thank you for your feedback.

[@Jarito1903]

thanks a lot for this course, may i ask if this course is also available in German?

[@INFLAMESMASTER08]

@Byron Draven Low quality bait

[@colarey]

Sir is it okay if I can work with ROS using Ubuntu on WSL instead of VMware ? And also is a NVIDIA graphics card required? My PC has 8GB of RAM with only an Intel Iris Graphics card

[@RSMReveals]

Will we have further lecturers.. very informative👍

[@leggedrobotics]

Yes, more lectures will follow in the coming two weeks!

[@darteyobeng]

am I allowed to join in a live class?

[@damiaK0017]

Hi,
These lecturers are extremely helpful. I am following them. I am having a problem when I clone the legged robotics, I don't see any git folder or everything that you depicted in the video. Kindly can you point me in the right direction?

[@marcospatricio8283]

I just started the course, so i don't know if it'll be helpful to you, but files used on the videos are available at this website:
rsl.ethz.ch/education-students/lectures/ros.html

[@damiaK0017]

@@marcospatricio8283 Thank you, Marcos. I am a beginner too. I am following the lecture notes as well. Still no luck. I am getting errors in the CMAKE CXX compiler. I don't know why.

[@ldcrbt]

@falzakhan8715 hello, I am a beginner in ROS trying to follow this course... I see your comment here and I understood that some months ago you were a beginner... Can I ask you: what is your level in ROS now after this course?

[@KaizerRahaman]

From where did we get the Workspace folder ?

[@scaldor]

ROS installation is like a Charles Babbage class.

[@18shahmeetable]

Where can we get the VM file used for this course?

[@relayzhang9045]

Why is the course not focused on explaining ROS2?

[@seelyw.4818]

Woran hats gelegen?

[@cleisonarmandomanriqueagui9176]

why on a virtual machine if you have ubuntu already installed ?

[@quynhvinh3501]

What is git in 52:27
How do you have "git"?

[@haardshah1715]

Git is a version control protocol which generally comes preinstalled in Ubuntu systems but can be installed separately as well.