Understanding dead reckoning robot navigation with ROS Open Class

Open Class: Understanding dead reckoning robot navigation with ROS

What you will learn in this Open Class

Robot Navigation means: How to make robots able to move around AUTONOMOUSLY. This means by themselves (no joystick attached).

Odometry based robot navigation means how to make use only of the odometry to understand where the robot is. That is, dead reckoning navigation (For example, the type of navigation that Roomba robots use).

This Live Class is about making a robot autonomously move around by sending velocity commands to its wheels and by using odometry to figure out where in the space the robot is. That is called dead reckoning navigation.

By the end of this Live Class you will be able to:

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