Author: Rodrigue de Schaetzen

First Robotics and ROS in Zürich Meetup

ICCLab organized the first robotics and ROS meetup in Zürich on April 9th 2019. There was a good turnout from representatives in both academia and industry, totaling almost 60 people in attendance. This meetup is the first of hopefully many that we intend to organize, as part of our effort to build a local network of ROS users across many robotic disciplines. Besides networking, our goal for these meetups is to also provide a platform for individuals to share and teach specific robotics/ROS knowledge. For this initial meetup we had two presentations: vision for navigation in autonomous robotics, and ROS applications at ICCLab.

Nearly 60 attendees were present at the first robotics and ROS in Zürich meetup.
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Configuring the ROS Navigation Stack on a new robot

Our lab has acquired a new robot as part of its ROS based robotic fleet. We opted with the SUMMIT-XL Steel from Robotnik; a behemoth compared to our much-loved TurtleBots.

The Summit-XL Steel is advertised to be a great platform for robotic application that require transporting heavy loads (up to 250 kg) such as warehouse automation (retrieved from https://www.robotnik.eu/web/wp-content/uploads//2018/07/Robotnik_SUMMIT-XL-STEEL-01.jpg).
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