MoveIt 2 for manipulators

Type of course:

Digital learning, Lesson

Language:

Duration:

20 minutes

Workload:

2 hours

Proficiency:

Advanced

Target:

Professionals, Students, Workers

MoveIt is the most-used framework for complex trajectory planning and execution for robots in the ROS ecosystem, Robot Operating System. This nugget gives the learner a basic overview of the existing programming interfaces to MoveIt in C++ and Python to programmatically control robots. These interfaces are the move_group_interface, MoveIt C++ API, and MoveIt Python API.

Learning outcomes

The learners can list the possible MoveIt interface options
The learners can create ROS2 packages that utilise different interfaces in C++ and Python
The learners can write simple ROS2 nodes for programmatic robot manipulation