robcn / ed_tutorials

Tutorials of ED

ED Tutorials

Tutorials for the Environment Descriptor ED. The explaination of the ED package can be found here: https://github.com/tue-robotics/ed

Tutorials

1. Running ED with a configuration file Basics of ED, how it works, what environment variables it needs and how to set-up a simple world model.
2. Specifying a more complex world Creating more comple models with heightmaps.
3. Creating re-usable models Using models in different models.
4. Models in models in ... Hierarchical models
5. Visualizing models Visualizing models
6. Localization Using ED to localize your robot in the world(model).
7. Navigation Using ED to publish an occupancy grid for your favourite navigation stack, e.g. Move Base
8. Laser sensor integration Integrate laserscanner data into ED
9. RGBD sensor integration Integrate RGBD data into ED
10. Querying the world model Different query interfaces of ED
11. Classification Use the world model to classify objects in the world(model)
12. Publishing transforms Publish entity transforms on the /tf topic
13. Manipulation How to use ED for grasping, tossing and placing objects with your robot