I have started diving into the world of robotics & decided to explore ROS2 since it is clearly becoming the new standard. I have followed a few tutorials here & there random videos — but I still feel such as I need something more structured with hands-on examples.
I want to find a beginner-friendly course or training path that explains the basics clearly & also includes some practical projects, maybe even with Gazebo or RViz. Ideally something that starts slow and builds up with real examples.
I came across a few tech courses online but most of them seemed to mix in other unrelated stuff such as generative ai training which is great, not what I am searching for in this case.
If you have got any solid suggestion, whether it is an online course, bootcamp or even a solid YouTube playlist, I want to hear about it.
I’m working through this Articulate Robotics mobile robot project now! Super helpful and fun.
It might be a little more demanding than other tutorials out there since its a full stack project (integrating hardware in there as well) but it’s been a great scafolding to start with. He has all of the launch files and URDFs built for you saving you a lot of de-bugging work (which I have first had experience trying to build a project on my own at first).
I think he also uses the ROS2 foxy distro? so there might be a couple discrepancies if you’re using Humble or some other distro but ChatGPT has been super helpful to trouble shoot!
Anyways…just my experience as a fellow noob
On a side note: it’s been really exciting getting exposed to ROS and the open source community. Not used to subcultures like these coming from MechE background.
Thanks, yes I’ve been trying to update them for Jazzy / New Gazebo but I’ve been a bit busy and struggling to get through it.
Here is a branch of the finished project which is on the new Gazebo and (I think) Jazzy which you can use as a reference
I have also added a “beta” version of my website accessible here, if you go there in 24 hours I will make sure whatever the latest stuff I have uncommitted is pushed. It will have a bunch of the relevant updates up to getting camera and lidar working - and a ton of “TODO” markers.
