Open-Source ROS Projects from ROS Developer Learning Path

Introduction

The ROS Developer Learning Path is one of the unique courses available now to transform you from an absolute beginner to an expert ROS developer. In this post, you can see some of the exciting projects done by our students during the first module (ROS for Absolute Beginners) of this course.

List of ROS Projects

Here are some of exciting projects done by course students

Ping Pong using ROS Turtlesim

Introduction

This project implements the Pong Arcade video game using ROS Turtlesim. There are two turtle players are on left and right. The two-player movement can be controlled using the keyboard. A turtle is acting as the ball.

Code, Tutorials and Demo Video

ROS Developer: Franz Pucher | Project Github | Blog Post

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Draw Iron Man using ROS Turtlesim

Introduction

This project implements the caricature drawing robot using ROS Turtlesim. You can input an image from an image file or web camera. The code will generate a swarm of turtles in the turtlesim and draw the caricature in a span of seconds.

Code, Tutorials and Demo Video

ROS Developer: Shilpaj Bhalerao | Project Github | Blog post

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Snake Game using ROS Turtlesim

Introduction

This project implements a snake video game in ROS Turtlesim. You can move the turtle using the keyboard teleoperation. There will be random turtle appear in turtlesim as food, the main snake turtle have to collect those turtle. The main turtle will keep on growing when it eats the random turtle.

Code, Tutorials and Demo Video

ROS Developer: Sakthi Balan V | Project Github 

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ROS Turtlesim management rqt plugin

Introduction

This project implments a rqt plugin for managing the turtle in Turtlesim simulator. You can create, delete, draw caricature and do more stuff using this plugin. You don’t have to write any line of code to work with Turtlesim.

Code, Tutorials and Demo Video

ROS Developer: Franz Pucher | Project Github 

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Turtlesim Buster

Introduction

This project implements a simple way to find newly spawned turtles in turtlesim and bust each turtle whenever it finds a new one. It is using TF and PID controller to reach into each turtle.

Code, Tutorials and Demo Video

ROS Developer: Rangel Isaias| Project Github 

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Turtlesim Simple Planner

Introduction

This project implements a simple way to avoid the collision between turtles inside the turtlesim and find its new path to a new location by path planning.

Code, Tutorials and Demo Video

ROS Developer: Rangel Isaias| Project Github 

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Turtlesim Plus

Introduction

This project implements some new features on top of classic turtlesim. The new features in turtlesim can be used to teach advanced concepts of mobile robotics. The code is built from the original code.

Code, Tutorials and Demo Video

ROS Developer: Pedro Alcantara| Project Github 

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Catch me if you can – Turtlesim Game

Introduction

This project implements a game called ‘Catch me if you can’. The theme of the game is, a swarm of the turtle will try to catch the master turtle, but the master turtle has to move away from that turtle. If the master turtle caught by the swarm of turtles, then the game end.

Code, Tutorials and Demo Video

ROS Developer: Jatin Kumar Arora| Project Github 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRLGFTX2dQE&ab_channel=JatinKumarArora

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ROS Turtlesim Hide and Seek

Introduction

This project implements a game using ROS Turtlesim. The turtle will perform a search of the area in a zig-zag pattern with a specified search step size until it finds the ball using the color sensor.

Code, Tutorials and Demo Video

ROS Developer: Michael Muldoon| Project Github 

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Differential Mobile Robot using ROS

Introduction

This project implements a simulation and hardware implementation of a differential drive robot working using ROS. The challenge of this project is, it uses very cheap components to reduce the overall robot cost.

Code, Tutorials and Demo Video

ROS Developer: Franz Pucher | Project Github | Blog Post

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Mobile Robot Description Package

Introduction

This project implements a very flexible mobile robot description package in ROS. You can easily change the dimensions of the robot by changing parameters in a configuration file. You don’t need t touch the xacro file. This package can be used as a template for creating an efficient xacro model for your robot.

Code, Tutorials and Demo Video

ROS Developer: Pedro Alcantara | Project Github | Wiki Page

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4 Wheel Drive Robot

Introduction

This project implements a simulation of a 4 wheel drive robot. The robot consists of a laser scanner and camera in order to navigate and detect objects in the environment.

Code, Tutorials and Demo Video

ROS Developer: Jatin Kumar Arora| Project Github 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFPkXMZmdUM&feature=share&ab_channel=JatinKumarArora

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ROS Pylauncher

Introduction

This project implements a better way to launch multiple ROS nodes using a Python script. Using this script, you can start ROS nodes in a specific order. This is not possible if you are launching the nodes using ROS Launch files.

Code, Tutorials and Demo Video

ROS Developer: Shilpaj Bhalerao| Project Github  | Blog Post

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ROS Lunar Rover

Introduction

This project implements a Lunar Rover simulation without using the ROS interface. This is using Gazebo API in order to access the robot attribute and control the robot in Gazebo.

Code, Tutorials and Demo Video

ROS Developer: Shilpaj Bhalerao| Project Github  | Blog Post

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Nvidia Jetbot Simulation

Introduction

This project implements a simulation of the popular NVIDIA Jetbot robots in Gazebo.

Code, Tutorials and Demo Video

ROS Developer: Rangel Isaias| Project Github 

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Jetbot Object Detection

Introduction

This project implements an object detection pipeline in the NVIDIA Jetbot simulation in Gazebo.

Code, Tutorials and Demo Video

ROS Developer: Rangel Isaias| Project Github 

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