Re:$100 robot kit running ROS2 and Navigation2
by ska on Friday December 11, 2020 @04:10PM
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Basically ROS is a collection of libraries, mostly for and by researchers for interfacing with and controlling robots.
Libraries exist at different levels of abstraction, but it is for the most part not exactly plug-and-play.
It's super useful if you are for example building robots in an academic lab, say, or re purposing existing hardware & software. The further you get from that environment, the less obvious the fit will be. But if you are playing around with robotics, ROS can help you avoid reinventing a whole bunch of wheels just to get started.
Libraries exist at different levels of abstraction, but it is for the most part not exactly plug-and-play.
It's super useful if you are for example building robots in an academic lab, say, or re purposing existing hardware & software. The further you get from that environment, the less obvious the fit will be. But if you are playing around with robotics, ROS can help you avoid reinventing a whole bunch of wheels just to get started.