udacity-robond-p2

Go Chase It! - Project 2 of the Udacity Robotics Software Engineer Nanodegree

Description

This project contains:

1. A two-wheeled robot model (URDF) which is equiped with a camera and a lidar.
2. A customized world supported by Gazebo.
3. Two ROS packages: the drive_bot and the ball_chaser , which enable the robot to chase the ball based on the camera perception.

Core Concepts

Concepts explored in this project:

• ROS publishers, subscribers, services and clients.
• URDF
• Gazebo modeling and world building
• Gazebo Plugins
• Rviz

Behavior

• Notice that the robot has been set to keep rotating and scanning for the white ball by default.