ROS Summer School

About

Immerse yourself in the world of mobile robotics – with the ROS Summer School! This year, the event has been shifted from August to September. Through hands-on courses, you’ll learn the basics of recognition, localisation, mapping and path planning step by step, and apply your knowledge directly to real robots. True to the motto ‘learning by doing’, you’ll work in teams on exciting tasks and develop your own autonomous applications.

The highlight: the Urban Challenge, where you’ll put your skills to the test alongside other participants. As well as gaining specialist knowledge in a friendly working atmosphere with an international flair, you’ll have the chance to explore the imperial city of Aachen on a guided tour.

The perfect introduction to robotics – practical, intensive and unforgettable!

Course leader

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stephan Kallweit (Subject Area: Robotics and Automation / Programming and Information Processing)

Target group

As the ROS Summer School is a non-profit event, we can only accept applications from students (aged 18+) or staff members of educational or research institutions.

Course aim

The ROS Summer School deals with general topics of mobile robotics:
- Introduction to mobile robotics
- ROS file system
- ROS communication
- Hardware and sensors
- ROSSerial
- Transformations in ROS
- Image processing with OpenCV & ROS
- Landmark recognition
- Localisation, mapping and SLAM
- Path planning

The participants will use the middleware ROS (Robot Operating System) as an operating system for robots. In addition to learning the theory, all topics will be tested in small groups on real hardware with our mobile robots developed at FH Aachen. At the end, the participants will apply their acquired knowledge to solve a secret problem and present their results in a competition.

In our 2-week ROS Summer School we offer a unique experience to learn ROS from scratch or to deepen your advanced ROS knowledge with many seminars, workshops and - of course - hands-on programming. The teaching material has been updated to ROS2 during our break to teach the latest ROS versions and use the latest packages such as Nav2 to guide our TurtleBots through the arena.

We want summer school participants to make clear and tangible progress in learning and applying ROS. For this reason, the practical sessions will take up most of the summer school. A basic knowledge of C++ or Python is recommended in order to successfully complete the practical exercises. Experience with ROS or Linux is not required. A computer will be provided for the duration of the summer school. You therefore do not need to bring your personal laptop.

We hope that lots of ROS enthusiasts will once again take part in the ROS Summer School, and that those who weren’t enthusiasts before will leave as such!!!

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