Host

Caterpillar, Inc.

Accomodations

Mark Twain Hotel
225 NE Adams St, Peoria, IL 61602
Distance to Caterpillar Visitors Center: 0.3 mile
(309) 676-3600
www.marktwainhotel.com

Please book with the hotel directly and ask for the "Southwest Research Insitute" rate ($129/night). The hotel has only blocked off a certain amount of rooms for the SwRI rate, so please call by April 10 to make sure you get a room at the discounted rate. The rates can only be secured by calling the hotel; reservations made online or through travel agents cannot be adjusted.

Dinner will be held at the Two25 Restaurant, located in the Mark Twain Hotel, at 6 pm on Wednesday April 29th.

Training Location

Caterpillar Visitors Center Peoria, IL USA (refer to Google map on the left sidebar)

Agenda

• April 29 - Caterpillar tractor assembly plant tour (tour begins at plant at 1 pm), check VMs, group dinner (6 pm).
• April 30 - ROS Basics OR Advanced Track*
  *Camera/Perception Exercises intended for Advanced Users (as defined by previously taking a ROSI Training course, or having several years of experience in ROS).

  	ROS Basics (Full - 0 Seats Remain)	Advanced (Full - 0 Seats Remain)
  AM	Intro, What is Catkin Installing and Building Packages Parameter Server, Topics and Messages	Industrial Calibration Library
  PM	Services, Launch files, TF Intro and Verify URDF	OpenCV

• May 1 - Path planning for industrial manipulators: MoveIt! and Descartes.

  AM	ROSI Today, Intro to MoveIt Examining Planning Environment Build and Update MoveIt Package Motion Planning (RViz and C++)
  PM	Intro to MoveIt Application Intro to Perception, Intro to Perception Application Intro to Descartes, Intro to Descartes Application

• May 2 - Lab exercise (Choose one of three). Depart at lunch.
  

  Labs	Simple MoveIt Application Simple Descartes Application Simple Perception Application

Note: You read correctly, the last day of class is a Saturday!

Prerequisites

Required hardware: Laptop (at least 4 GB RAM, and about 10 GB hard disk space) with SwRI ROSI Training Virtual Machine installed; instructions here. Link for Virtual Machine will be updated on April 24th for this years training.

Required Experience: Ubuntu (linux operating system), C++. Ubuntu tutorials can be found on the ROSI Training website; users should be familar with content in Exercises 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3.

Recommended: Experience with Python. General robotics experience.

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