Guides & tutorials

Learn how to use our robots with practical guides and tutorials. Tips for an easy handling and tricks to get the best out of them.

Dynamixel Tutorial – XL 430 introduction

The DYNAMIXEL X series is a new range of inexpensive high performance servo motors. The XL series has the same mechanical structure as the XM430 and XH430 , and it’s compatible with the latter. These servo motors directly embark their network card which allows the communication with the other servos motors as well as with[…]
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Interacting with Pepper robot

What can I say to the Pepper robot , developed by Softbank Robotics (basic channel mode) Note: These sentences are the canonical forms. A canonical form is the standard. Some of variants can also work. For example, you can also try “How can I call you?” for “what’s your name?” Our GR Lab engineers specialise[…]
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ROS – Robot Operating System

What is ROS? ROS in a nutshell… As the full name of Robot Operating System suggests, ROS is an operating system for robots. In the same way as operating systems for PCs, servers or standalone devices, ROS is a full operating system for service robotics. ROS is in fact a meta-operating system, something between an[…]
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ROS packages for Cognex and Siemens PLC ModBus

Cognex In-Sight and Siemens S7 PLC Modbus Ros package and tutorial The modbus stack provided by Génération Robots team of engineers offers a wrapper from the modbus communication to standardized ROS messages. The modbus package is based on pymodbus and is also written in Python. This package was used in an industrial quality inspection project[…]
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Robotic simulation scenarios with Gazebo and ROS

Gazebo robotics simulator with ROS This tutorial is intended for roboticists that want to have realistic simulations of their robotic scenarios. Gazebo is a 3D simulator, while ROS serves as the interface for the robot. Combining both results in a powerful robot simulator. With Gazebo you are able to create a 3D scenario on your[…]
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Tutorial: How to teach NAO to play soccer?

RoboCup 2014, which is to robots what FIFA World Cup is to humans, will start soon and there’s still time to get teach your programmable humanoid NAO to play soccer! Teaching NAO play soccer tutorial made by experts HumaRobotics engineering team and Génération Robots like to contribute to the NAO owners community so they decided to[…]
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