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This is the home of some practical lab courses developed by Dr Tom Howard, a University Teacher at the University of Sheffield. The material here is designed for teaching ROS (the Robot Operating System), mobile robots, and autonoumous navigation. It has been developed to support a range of practical teaching activities that take place in The Diamond for a range of different degree courses, including ACS6121.

This lab uses a mix of simulation-based learning and real robot hardware. Typically, we start in simulation first on a WSL-based simulation platform that we use for this. Everything you'll learn in simulation is directly applicable to real robots too; so you'll be able to apply your new-learnt ROS knowledge to the real TurtleBot3 Waffle Robots that we have in The Diamond.