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Abaco’s autonomous Rover using the GVC1001

Abaco Systems, a leader in rugged embedded computing, has created a demo of an autonomous rover to show off the capabilities of their new GVC1001 computer. The demo shows a 2WD Rover Robotics robot autonomously following a person by using a GVC1001 computer mounted to it, as well as several sensors such as cameras and […]

ROS 2 Eloquent: Is it time to switch?

ROS 2 Eloquent has been released today meaning it is now available for everyone to download and try out. Once again we are going to try to answer the main question on everyone’s minds. Is it time to switch? ROS 2 Eloquent is the fifth release of ROS 2. It is not a LTS (long […]

Rover at ROSCon Macau 2019

We at Rover Robotics were excited to attend our first ROSCon which took place at the Conrad Casino in Macau, China from Oct 31th – Nov 1st 2019. We exhibited in Booth 2 with ADLINK Technologies. ADLINK makes rugged computers with ROS 2 support, we make Rugged robots with ROS 2 support, it was a […]

How to run ROS on startup (bootup)

ROS 1 by default does not start on bootup, but its really handy to be able to just power on a robot and have all your ROS nodes launch. There are many ways to do this in linux including the systemd, rc.local file. We recommend using systemd because it has logging builtin, it can be […]

ROS 2 Navigation: now we’re getting somewhere!

Here’s how to use ROS 2 Navigation stack to get around and check the health of your data! My workspace has the repos linked from openrover-demo.repos, and everything else (including the Navigation2 stack) is installed on Ubuntu via apt. Which version of ROS to use? Every version of ROS 2 has its issues right now. […]

ROS 2 dev tip: sync your code with lsyncd

I frequently write code on my computer and want to build, deploy, and run it fast. How do I make sure I’m always running the same code on both machines? I work on an Ubuntu desktop and my robot runs Ubuntu. Both computers are running on Intel NUCs. Note: This works with both ROS 1 […]

ROS 2: Maps Maps Maps

Map resolution One of the most important things for ground robots is the map. When a robot is navigating around, it uses the map for figuring out where it is, this is call localizing. We want a fine enough resolution map to capture room features reliably – the coarser the resolution, the more distorted the […]

ROS 2 – Is it time to switch? [tutorial included]

This blog post is now outdated, check out our latest posting here About the authors: This post was written by Dan Rose and Nick Fragale from Rover Robotics (a robotics OEM) with help from Open Robotics, the AWS RoboMaker team, ADLINK Technology, and Intel. Our goal is to progress and proliferate ROS 2 and we […]

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