Open Robotics Laboratory∗
Michael Boulet, Aaron Enes, Keith Ruenheck, Nicholas Armstrong-Crews
Tue, Fri, Jan 10, 13, 17, 20, 24, 27, 31, 3, 09:30-11:00am, 8-205
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 23-Dec-2011
Limited to 14 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
A hands-on introduction to applied robotics sponsored by MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Thanks to open source robotics libraries and inexpensive robot platforms, creating advanced robot capabilities has never been easier. Learn how to use the popular ROS robotics libraries and a small ground robot equipped with a Kinect sensor to demonstrate behaviors like person following, patrolling, exploration, and map-making. The course will focus on selecting, integrating, and tuning existing software packages with some high-level discussion of the underlying robotics technologies. No robotics experience is necessary, but some familiarity with the Linux and an interest in programming robots in C++ or Python operating system will be useful. Teams of two or three will share access to an off-the-shelf robot system throughout IAP. Participants will be challenged to demonstrate a creative or novel robot application in a YouTube-like video. \\*This work is sponsored by the Department of the Air Force under Air Force Contract #FA8721-05-C-0002. Opinions, interpretations, conclusions and recommendations are those of the authors and are not necessarily endorsed by the United States Government.
Contact: Michael Boulet, MITLL, (781) 981-4751, boulet@ll.mit.edu
Sponsor: Lincoln Laboratory
Cosponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Latest update: 15-Dec-2011
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