ROS Mobile Manipulators In-Person Training

Mastering Mobile Manipulators Hands-on Training

This training is organized by The Construct in cooperation with Robotnik

What You Will Learn

Learn how to build mobile robot manipulator applications with ROS1 from the ground up with our hands-on training. Our expert instructors will guide you through everything you need to know, including:

  • Robot Navigation
  • Robot Perception: Object Detection
  • Motion Planning for Robotic Manipulators
  • Pick & Place Objects with MoveIt
  • Robot Behavior Design using FlexBe
  • Creating a Complete App that Integrates all Behaviors into a Single ROS App
  • Creating a Web Interface for End Users to Use

Our program is held in-person, so you will have the opportunity to work with real robots in a collaborative and immersive environment. Join us today and learn how to turn your concepts into reality.

Benefits

  • In-person instruction from industry professionals
  • Hands-on experience with real robots
  • Exercises with simulated robots, working along with the instructors
  • Complete a real-world project with a real RB-KAIROS+ mobile manipulator
  • Access to a supportive community of like-minded learners

Robots Used

At the training, you’ll get hands-on experience with a real [RB-KAIROS+ Mobile Manipulator]



Training Curriculum

Part 1 - Set Up the Navigation System for a Mobile Manipulator

  • Create a map of an environment
  • Robot Localization
  • Path planning with obstacle avoidance
  • Send a sequence of waypoints and execute those movements

Hands-on challenge: Make an RB-KAIROS+ autonomously navigate in an indoor environment.

Part 2 - Moving the Arm

  • Configure MoveIt for your robot
  • Program the moveit_commander to send trajectories to the robot arm

Hands-on challenge: Program the arm to reach any location in its action space.

Part 3 - Do Motion Planning Programmatically

After completing this chapter, you can create a Python program that performs motion planning on your robot.

Part 4 - Grasping the Object

  • Object detection
  • Pick an object
  • Add perception to avoid obstacles
  • Visualize the detections in RVIZ
  • Create a pick & place task

Hands-on challenge: Make the arm grasp objects from the shelf while avoiding obstacles.

Part 5 - Use FlexBe to Program the Robot Behavior

  • Create FlexBe states
  • Create an entire state machine that communicates with the robot

Hands-on challenge: Define the behavior of the warehouse robot for a pick & place application.

Part 6 - Design Web Interfaces for ROS robots

  • Set up the server in the robot
  • Create and run a web page that shows relevant robot information
  • HTML and CSS on the web page
  • Set up a JavaScript framework
  • Understand the lifecycle of the web page
  • Add an online Joystick to your web page
  • Show the robot’s cameras on the page
  • Show your custom map on the page

Hands-on challenge: Create a web interface for non-experts to command the robot, and know its status.

Part 7 - Real Robot Project: Make a Full Manipulator Application to Autonomously Clean a Space

Throughout this training, you will build a complete robot app for mobile manipulators that look at and serve objects from shelves in a warehouse environment. The robot will to go to the shelf’s location, look for the object, grasp it, and bring it to the operator’s boxes.

For any questions please contact us at info@theconstructsim.com
The Construct team

Is it an online training or have to participate physically?

:grinning: He he he…I can’t tell if you are deliberately trying to provoke everyone, but assuming you’re not, here are two big clues from the original post:

  1. The title of the post includes the phrase “In-Person Training”
  2. At the top of the post, there’s this revealing information:
  • Where: Barcelona, Spain
  • When: March 22, 2023 → March 24, 2023
  • Only 15 spots

Oh, and I now see the phrase Hands-on challenge throughout. I hope this helps.

PS Barcelona is really lovely BTW. Maybe you have already visited?

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Sorry. Blame it on my bad English. Thank you for pointing it out. No I never visited Barcelona. I do not have any means to go there.Thanks again.