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- 10:23, 15 April 2025 MRC/Tutorials/Installation from OVA file (hist | edit) [3,118 bytes] E.torta@tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Import the VM on the Windows Machine * Download the .OVA file from this link:https://tuenl-my.sharepoint.com/personal/e_torta_tue_nl/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx?id=%2Fpersonal%2Fe%5Ftorta%5Ftue%5Fnl%2FDocuments%2FMRC%2DCourse%2Fmrc%2Dros1%2Dtemplate%2Eova&parent=%2Fpersonal%2Fe%5Ftorta%5Ftue%5Fnl%2FDocuments%2FMRC%2DCourse&ct=1744705383775&or=OWA%2DNT%2DMail&cid=38992f95%2Dbfe1%2D73aa%2Dbd57%2D86579c36e301&ga=1&ls=true * Install VirtualBox on the your machine, if it's not...") Tag: 2017 source edit
- 13:02, 9 April 2025 PRE2024 3 Group18/MatLab code (hist | edit) [8,737 bytes] J.v.d.heijden@student.tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Here is the MatLab code of the simulation:") Tag: 2017 source edit
- 09:57, 3 April 2025 MRC/Tutorials/Introduction to Virual Machine (hist | edit) [1,471 bytes] E.j.suichies@tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page to inform students about what a VM is) Tag: Visual edit
- 09:48, 3 April 2025 MRC/Tutorials/Prerequisites Ubuntu (hist | edit) [381 bytes] E.j.suichies@tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page for ensuring Ubuntu verision is correct) Tag: Visual edit
- 17:14, 1 April 2025 MRC/Tutorials/Real robot maps (hist | edit) [4,098 bytes] P.v.dooren@tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "For some parts of your software you will be using maps. In the simulator these are automatically shown. When working with the real robots you wont have a map. This means it is hard to see if localization is working correctly. You also cannot visualize the plan of your robot since this plan is defined in map frame. Confession The reason that sim-rviz can show the map is because we are cheating. Usually you can only visualize that which your robot has knowledge of. Howeve...") Tag: Visual edit
- 16:46, 1 April 2025 MRC/Tutorials/Real robot (hist | edit) [3,587 bytes] P.v.dooren@tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Now you know how to write robot software, lets discuss how to work with the hardware. We are using two types of robots, Jackal and the rosbots Bobo and Coco. Their operation will be slightly different. == Hero == === starting Hero === To start the robot long press the power button, after about three seconds you will hear the fans starting up. Once you can see the battery level on the screen of the robot (NOT a touchscreen!) the robot is properly started. You can now st...") Tag: Visual edit
- 16:57, 25 March 2025 Mobile Robot Control 2025 (hist | edit) [10,391 bytes] P.v.dooren@tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<div align="center"> <font size="4">'Hero the Toyota HSR'</font> </div> center|thumb|350px ---- =Introduction= This course is about software design and how to apply this in the context of autonomous robots. The accompanying assignment is about applying this knowledge to a real-life robotics task. =Course Schedule and Lecture Slides= Lectures will typically take place on the Wednesdays between 15:30-17:15. Guided self-study will take place on Fridays...") Tag: Visual edit
- 14:55, 25 March 2025 MRC/Tutorials/Frame transformations (hist | edit) [1,894 bytes] P.v.dooren@tue.nl (talk | contribs) (add frame transformation info) Tag: Visual edit
- 17:55, 14 February 2025 PRE2024 3 Group21 (hist | edit) [27,502 bytes] S.baltac@student.tue.nl (talk | contribs) (initial) Tag: Visual edit
- 13:07, 12 February 2025 PRE2024 3 Group3 (hist | edit) [138,424 bytes] A.sinharoy@student.tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Added the group member's names to the page) Tag: 2017 source edit
- 13:45, 10 February 2025 PRE2024 3 Group7 (hist | edit) [90,415 bytes] I.christou@student.tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Changed the title added a table for the team members and some ideas) Tag: Visual edit
- 11:17, 10 February 2025 PRE2024 3 Group8 (hist | edit) [62,704 bytes] M.a.dijkstra@student.tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Margot Dijkstra, Llywelyn Vrouenraets, Sem Schreurs, Vladis Michail, Alessia-Maria Postelnicu, Sebastian Ciulacu") Tag: 2017 source edit
- 10:59, 10 February 2025 PRE2024 3 Group9 (hist | edit) [92,135 bytes] A.s.v.rossum@student.tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Amélie van Rossum (1743929)") Tag: Visual edit
- 10:43, 10 February 2025 PRE2024 3 Group12 (hist | edit) [98,369 bytes] M.a.mrvelj@student.tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Claimed group) Tag: 2017 source edit
- 10:43, 10 February 2025 PRE2024 3 Group11 (hist | edit) [69,236 bytes] M.p.j.v.berkel@student.tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Added group member names) Tag: 2017 source edit
- 10:42, 10 February 2025 PRE2024 3 Group6 (hist | edit) [37,932 bytes] D.joshi@student.tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Added initial group members) Tag: 2017 source edit
- 10:41, 10 February 2025 PRE2024 3 Group13 (hist | edit) [40,632 bytes] B.coppus@student.tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Bas Coppus, Mikolaj Pujanek,") Tag: 2017 source edit
- 10:40, 10 February 2025 PRE2024 3 Group14 (hist | edit) [78,922 bytes] D.bogdanovs@student.tue.nl (talk | contribs) (added names of group members) Tag: Visual edit
- 10:36, 10 February 2025 PRE2024 3 Group15 (hist | edit) [64,674 bytes] N.milanovski@student.tue.nl (talk | contribs) (added names of group members) Tag: 2017 source edit
- 10:32, 10 February 2025 PRE2024 3 Group4 (hist | edit) [100,571 bytes] M.a.p.v.aken@student.tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "max van aken Bram van der pas Jarno peters") Tag: Visual edit
- 10:31, 10 February 2025 PRE2024 3 Group5 (hist | edit) [94,063 bytes] A.veshnyakov@student.tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Names) Tag: 2017 source edit
- 10:30, 10 February 2025 PRE2024 3 Group20 (hist | edit) [76,145 bytes] N.murugesh@student.tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Added Names of the team mates) Tag: 2017 source edit
- 10:11, 10 February 2025 PRE2024 3 Group18 (hist | edit) [104,538 bytes] S.d.janssen@student.tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Dylan Jansen, Bas Gerrits, Sem Janssen") Tag: 2017 source edit
- 10:04, 10 February 2025 PRE2024 3 Group10 (hist | edit) [96,297 bytes] J.c.j.v.amelsvoort@student.tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Jamin, joost, loes en norah en tom") Tag: 2017 source edit
- 10:04, 10 February 2025 PRE2024 3 Group17 (hist | edit) [108,515 bytes] B.ariese@student.tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Added names) Tag: 2017 source edit
- 10:03, 10 February 2025 PRE2024 3 Group19 (hist | edit) [115,704 bytes] V.a.todorov@student.tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Added names of the group) Tag: 2017 source edit
- 10:01, 10 February 2025 PRE2024 3 Group16 (hist | edit) [59,970 bytes] E.jansen@student.tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Jada and elena are in this group) Tag: Visual edit
- 14:23, 31 January 2025 MRC/Tutorials/The EMC environment (hist | edit) [9,583 bytes] K.d.vos@tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "===The main loop=== When we want to control and monitor a piece of hardware, we often want to perform a series of steps, computations, procedures, etc., in a repetitive manner. When we talk about doing something repeatedly in software, the first 'control flow statement' that comes to mind is a loop. So, lets' create a loop! <code> include <iostream> int main() { while(true) { std::cout << "Hello World!" << std::endl; } } return 0; }</code> Remembe...") Tag: Visual edit
- 13:56, 31 January 2025 MRC/Tutorials/Git (hist | edit) [8,791 bytes] K.d.vos@tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Creating a software solution together means sharing a project, which in our case means sharing code. We will be using git for this. Git is "a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency": *version control means that the files and changes you make to them are 'tracked' over time, i.e., their 'history' is stored. You can always go back to previous versions, show the diffe...") Tag: Visual edit
- 13:49, 31 January 2025 MRC/Tutorials/Simple C++ programs (hist | edit) [1,647 bytes] K.d.vos@tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "So far, we have seen how to create a simple C++ project, run the simulator, show some visualizations and drive the simulated robot around using the keyboard. That's nice and all, but we don't want to manually drive around a virtual robot. We want an autonomous, real robot! As was already stated during the lecture, we won't expose you to the (sometimes somewhat frustrating) low-level details of connecting software to hardware. Instead, we provide you with an abstraction...") Tag: 2017 source edit
- 13:00, 31 January 2025 MRC/Tutorials/Cmake (hist | edit) [4,385 bytes] K.d.vos@tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "So, we compiled a source file into a binary in another directory, while linking against the *emc-framework* library. Imagine that by the end of the course you will use more libraries, and every time you need to remember the g++ command. That's quite a nuisance! Fortunately, there are tools that will help you out. In this course, we will use [CMake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMake). All you have to do is create a file in the root (~/mrc/my_project) of you project that...") Tag: Visual edit
- 12:55, 31 January 2025 MRC/Tutorials/The EMC framework (hist | edit) [2,746 bytes] K.d.vos@tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "So, we've got a C++ source file that we can compile, but it is still not very useful. We have to build software that runs on a robot and can perform a complex task. Starting from scratch would take a lot of time, but fortunately a lot is already provided! Actually it was already secretly sitting on your computer, being installed by the install script. This software that is provided is not something that is runnable on its own, but a set of functions and C++ classes that...") Tag: Visual edit
- 12:51, 31 January 2025 MRC/Tutorials/Setting up and building your project (hist | edit) [2,472 bytes] K.d.vos@tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Of course, we not only want to use software during this course, but we want to create some! Let's start off with a simple example project. Go inside the ~/mrc directory, and create a new folder with the name my_project: <blockquote>cd ~/mrc mkdir my_project</blockquote> Often, the code files are not put directly in the root of a folder, but in a directory called *src*. This stands for "source", and is called this way because the files in there are the source of the com...") Tag: Visual edit
- 12:33, 31 January 2025 MRC/Tutorials/Vscode (hist | edit) [5,852 bytes] K.d.vos@tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "To make the use of VScode more comfortable for you we've created a script, which if you run it not only installs VScode, but also installs a few of its many extensions. These extensions extend the functionality of VScode. There are extensions to make it understand CMake, Git and C++. To install VScode:<blockquote>wget -O install.bash https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KdVos/MRC_vscode_install/main/vscode_install.bash source ./install.bash</blockquote> ===Setting up VSc...") Tag: Visual edit
- 12:25, 31 January 2025 MRC/Tutorials/Adding doors (hist | edit) [1,310 bytes] K.d.vos@tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with " The real environment might contain a door that the robot needs to open. The simulator is capable of simulating these doors, such that you can test your software before it gets real! To add doors to the simulated world, simply edit your heightmap and add grey lines to it. To be specific: * The door should be a straight line (but not necessarily axis-aligned), with a minimum thickness of 2 pixels. To be more specific, all pixels in the door line should be connected * The...") Tag: Visual edit
- 12:23, 31 January 2025 MRC/Tutorials/Adding clutter and simulating wheelslip (hist | edit) [1,759 bytes] K.d.vos@tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with " In the real world, the odometry that is returned by the robot is not perfect and will have a certain amount of drift. Furthermore, the internal representation of the map never matches 100% with the real world. To add these discrepancies to the simulator (which are disabled by default), a JSON config file can be supplied. In this file it is easy to specify an array of objects that will be added to the world and to enable wheelslip. An example of this file is shown below:...") Tag: Visual edit
- 11:51, 31 January 2025 MRC/Tutorials/Using a custom simulator map (hist | edit) [3,650 bytes] K.d.vos@tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "By default, the simulator loads an indoor environment. Fortunately, you can change the simulation environment very easily! You just have to create a heightmap: an image that specifies for each pixel how 'high' the world has to be at that point. Since the laser only scans at one height, we can use two extremes here: flat (ground level) or high enough to be detected by the laser. To create an image, simply open your favourite image editor and create a black-and-white imag...") Tag: Visual edit
- 11:44, 31 January 2025 MRC/Tutorials/Controlling the robot (hist | edit) [820 bytes] K.d.vos@tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with " If you start the simulation, you will see not much is happening. The robot is standing still in a static environment. Let's change that! A first simple way to test the simulator is by controlling the robot using your keyboard. Just run: <blockquote>mrc-teleop</blockquote> and you will be able to move the robot forward and backward with 'w' and 's', you can rotate the robot using 'a' and 'd' and you can stop movement with any other key. The simulator is not an exact m...") Tag: 2017 source edit
- 11:37, 31 January 2025 MRC/Tutorials/Starting the simulator (hist | edit) [2,291 bytes] K.d.vos@tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "During the course, we have many groups and only one robot, so test time on the robot is scarce. Fortunately, we have a virtual (software) representation of the robot that can be used to simulate the robot. At the moment it: *Simulates the movement of the robot *Simulates the laser data of the robot, created by the virtual environment *Provides a simple visualisation This should already be enough to get you started, and more will be added later (odometry, moving doors,...") Tag: 2017 source edit
- 11:00, 31 January 2025 MRC/Tutorials/Installation of EMC environment (hist | edit) [780 bytes] K.d.vos@tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "To get you up speed as soon as possible, we created a nice little installer script that will set-up your computer in no-time. It will download, install and compile all necessary software and if all goes well, you can start using our robot simulator within 30 minutes. Just do the following: 1. Open a terminal 2. Download the install script (type into your terminal):<blockquote>wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tue-robotics/emc-env/master/install.bash</blockquote>3....") Tag: Visual edit
- 10:50, 31 January 2025 MRC/Tutorials/The terminal (hist | edit) [2,870 bytes] K.d.vos@tue.nl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "We will now introduce you a tool called the terminal. On Ubuntu press ( ctrl + alt + t ). Do you feel like a hacker already? This is the terminal, it allows you to interact with your computer via text. For example try typing<blockquote>ls</blockquote>It will show you all the folders in your current directory, including the folders *Desktop Documents Downloads Music Pictures Public Templates Videos* Lets make a folder for your course files:<blockquote>mkdir mrc</blockquo...") Tag: Visual edit
