🤖 ROS 2 Training Workshop: From Foundations to Deployment

Welcome to the ROS 2 Training Workshop GitHub repository! This hands-on, self-paced resource is designed to guide you through the fundamentals and real-world applications of the Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2).

Whether you're a beginner, intermediate, or aspiring roboticist, this course provides you with:

• 🌐 Self-paced learning resources
• 🧠 Real-world use cases
• 🛠️ Simulations & robot demonstrations
• 📦 All files and simulation assets included
• 🏅 Certificate of Completion upon submission

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📌 Table of Contents

1. Why ROS 2?
2. Workshop Structure
3. System Requirements
4. Getting Started
5. Training Modules
6. Capstone Projects
7. Contribution Guidelines
8. License

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🚀 Why ROS 2?

Modern robotics needs a middleware that can scale across platforms, languages, and use cases.

⚠️ The Challenge: Low-level control (e.g. microcontrollers in C++) needs to interoperate with high-level modules like perception (often in Python). Bridging the gap is complex.

✅ ROS 2 solves this by acting as a communication middleware, seamlessly integrating distributed robotic components.

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📚 Workshop Structure

This repository contains the following major components:

• 📁 assets/: Images and other illustrations used in Repository
• 📁 docs/: ROS 2 core concepts (nodes, topics, services, actions, parameters)
• 📁 ros2_simulation/: Gazebo simulations, RViz visualization, robot model files (URDF/Xacro)
• 📁 capstone_project/: Self-paced real-world project instructions with source code
• 📁 hardware_interface/: Real robot interface and launch configuration
• 📁 presentations/: Ready-to-use .pptx and PDFs for workshop delivery

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🖥️ System Requirements

• OS: Ubuntu 22.04 (recommended)
• ROS Version: Humble Hawksbill or **Jazzy **
• Python 3.10+
• Gazebo Fortress or Ignition Edifice (optional)
• colcon build system
• git, vcs, and rosdep

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🛠️ Getting Started

1. Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/your-org/ros2-training-workshop.git
cd ros2-training-workshop

🧱 Training Modules

Module	Description
01. ROS 2 Architecture	Understand nodes, DDS, topics, services, executors
02. Launch System	Python launch files, namespaces, remapping
03. Simulation Setup	Gazebo + RViz with ROS 2
04. Real Robot Interface	Hardware abstraction using ROS 2 Control
05. Perception & Mapping	Integrate sensors like camera, lidar, IMU
06. Navigation	Path planning, localization, controller tuning
07. Capstone Project	Full robotic product development from scratch