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The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a flexible framework for writing robot software. It is a collection of tools, libraries and conventions that aim to simplify the task of creating complex and robust robot behaviour across a wide variety of robotic platforms.
The first ROS Summer School was offered in 2012 at FH-Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Since then it has grown and the first duplication of the ROS Summer School outside of Germany was presented at Tshwane University of Technology in 2016. It started mainly as an in-house course but has grown over the past two years and is now offered outside of TUT.
The ROS Summer School provides a good starting platform using simple robot hardware and - of course - ROS software.
The course starts on the first and second day with building a foundation in the basics of ROS, navigation in Linux, how ROS operates and then from the third day the main tasks of mobile robotics, i.e. perception, localization, mapping and path planning is introduced, investigated and applied.
The philosophy of the ROS summer School is:
"Learning by doing
to get hands-on experience".
Besides acquiring the necessary theoretical knowledge, all topics are taught in small groups on real mobile robots.
One of the highlights of the summer school is a competition (an urban challenge) on the last day of the summer school. Participants form different teams that have the task to design a typical mobile robotic application like indoor/outdoor exploration. They all use the same hardware, powered by their learnt ROS skills.
Attendees should have a basic knowledge of at least one programming language such as Python or C++.