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ROS 101: Intro to the Robot Operating System
Clearpath Robotics brings us a new tutorial series on ROS! Since we practically live in the Robot Operating System (ROS), we thought it was time to share some tips on how to get started with ROS....
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ROS 101: A practical example
In the previous ROS 101 post, we provided a quick introduction to ROS to answer questions like What is ROS? and How do I get started? Now that you understand the basics, here’s how they can apply to a...
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ROS 101: Drive a Husky!
In the previous ROS 101 post, we showed how easy it is to get ROS going inside a virtual machine, publish topics and subscribe to them. If you haven’t had a chance to check the out all the previous...
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Tweet to drive a robot!
Happy Birthday!! Clearpath is officially 5 years old and what better way to celebrate than let all of our fans drive a robot. No matter where you are in the world, you can experience what it’s like to...
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ROS 101: Drive a Grizzly!
So you have had a taste of driving a virtual Husky in our previous tutorial, but now want to try something a little bigger? How about 2000 lbs bigger? Read on to learn how to drive a (virtual)...
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Grizzly on the Mars Emulation Terrain at NCFRN
by Ryan Gariepy I recently spent over a week in Montreal talking with – and learning from – the Canadian field robotics community, first at the Computer and Robot Vision (CRV) conference and then at...
View ArticleClearpath introduces Jackal, their new unmanned ground vehicle
We’ve been keeping a huge secret and now we’re ready to share it… Earlier this year, Army Research Labs (ARL) contracted us to design an affordable, portable research platform for outdoor use. Working...
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ROS 101: Creating a publisher node
By Martin Cote In our previous post, we graduated from driving a Husky to taking on a Grizzly! Now it’s time to get down and dirty with what ROS is really made of: nodes! We will first be creating a...
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Building a robotics company
By Ryan Gariepy As we’ve made more of a name for ourselves within various startup communities, we’re commonly asked how we moved from our beginnings with little resources and no connections to a...
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NERVE Center: The robot playground
Jackal on the water ramp at the University of Massachusetts Lowell NERVE Center in Boston. By Meghan Hennessey What’s the NERVE Center, you ask? It’s the robot testing facility at the University of...
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ROS101: Creating a subscriber using GitHub
By Martin Cote We previously learned how to write a publisher node to move Husky randomly. BUT: what good is publishing all these messages if no one is there to read it? In this tutorial we’ll write a...
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Do more with Udev
By Paul Bovbel Udev is a device manager for Linux that dynamically creates and removes nodes for hardware devices. In short, it helps your computer find your robot easily. By default, hardware devices...
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ROS, Arduino, and a Husky simulation
By Martin Cote The Arduino family of micro controllers has quickly become a go-to board for hobbyists due to its ease of use. Often times roboticists must create communication protocols to allow their...
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ROS101: Creating your own RQT Dashboard
By Martin Cote After working in the terminal, gazebo and RViz, it’s time for a change of pace. For this ROS101 tutorial we’ll be detailing the basics of creating your own rqt dashboard! A dashboard is...
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MATLAB Robotics System Toolbox and ROS
By Ilia Baranov Recently, Mathworks released a new toolbox for Matlab. This is exciting for a number of reasons: it includes everything from data analysis to coordination of multiple robots. In...
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Clearpath and Christie demo 3D video game with robots
By Ryan Gariepy For our recent “hack week” we teamed up with one of the most innovative visual technology companies in the world, Christie, to make a 3D video game with robots. How did it all come...
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Robots 101: Lasers
By Ilia Baranov In this new Robots 101 series, we will be taking a look at how robots work, what makes designing them challenging, and how engineers at Clearpath Robotics tackle these problems. To...
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AgBot Robotic Seeding Challenge powered by $50K grant for Grizzly RUV
By Rachel Gould The 2016 agBOT Robotic Seeding Challenge challenges participants to build unmanned robotic equipment to plant, measure and track multiple crop seeds to improve farming efficiency. The...
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Simulating in MapleSim
By Ilia Baranov Robots are expensive and they usually depend on batteries. What if you want to run an experiment with 100 robots, running for 10 hours? To help answer this question, ROS has built in...
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3 supply chain trends to watch for in 2016
The New Year is upon us and with that comes predictions of what 2016 has in store. Will Automated Guided Vehicle (AGVs) continue to drive materials on the factory floor? What is ‘Industry 4.0’ and when...
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Interview: The team behind the apple harvesting robot
Source: Clearpath Robotics By: Chris Bogdon Amir Degani is an assistant professor at Technion Institute of Technology and Avi Kahnani is the CEO and Co-Founder of Israeli robotics start-up Fresh Fruits...
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5 innovation challenges in materials transport
by: Meghan Hennessey Walk into any manufacturing facility today. Forklifts and AGVs may be in operation serving specific parts of the manufacturing floor, but you’ll also see hundreds of people at...
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4 reasons why Industry 4.0 will leave AGVs behind
AGV in warehouse. Source: Wikipedia Commons By Paula de Villavicencio Technology has been in development for the last decade and has now come to fruition in the form of self-driving vehicles. These...
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Interview: International Ground Vehicle Ground Competition (IGVC) winner on...
Photo credit: Lawrence Tech University IGVC Facebook By: Chris Bogdon The International Ground Vehicle Ground Competition (IGVC) is an annual event that brings together teams of college students from...
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Clearpath Robotics launches “Warthog UGV”, the amphibious robot
Clearpath Robotics, a leading provider of mobile robotic platforms for research and development, has partnered with ARGO XTR to release Warthog – a large, amphibious, all-terrain mobile robot designed...
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Customer story: Deployable, autonomous vibration control of bridges using...
Image: Clearpath Sriram Narasimhan’s research team are shaking things up in the Civil Engineering Structures Lab at the University of Waterloo. The research, which is led by Ph.D Candidate Kevin...
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Rapid outdoor/indoor 3D mapping with a Husky UGV
by Nicholas Charron The need for fast, accurate 3D mapping solutions has quickly become a reality for many industries wanting to adopt new technologies in AI and automation. New applications requiring...
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