Blog update #2.
So, the first week into the intenrship was, like all first weeks, an introductory one; administrative stuff, getting to know the people and the workplace. Really nice working environment and very friendly people.
Now, as far as the internship, I sticked to the internship planning and this week was mostly focused on research regarding the general theories of my topic.
The research done could be divided into two main areas:
So, the first week into the intenrship was, like all first weeks, an introductory one; administrative stuff, getting to know the people and the workplace. Really nice working environment and very friendly people.
Now, as far as the internship, I sticked to the internship planning and this week was mostly focused on research regarding the general theories of my topic.
The research done could be divided into two main areas:
- ROS and the turtlebot simulator
- The Dirichlet distribution and its properties
Regarding the first one, I will be given a desktop that has Ubuntu 12.04 as the turtlebot simulator is not yet compatible with the 14.04 Ubuntu due to conflicts on .urdf files. As a result, the machine will be running on ROS hydro as it is the most recent working simulator until a patch on 14.04 and ROS indigo is given.
On a sidenote, I also installed Ubuntyu 12.04 and ROS Hydro on my old laptop but the simulator there is too slow so I will use the company's dekstop for now.
Regarding the ROS simulator, I re-did all the tutorials on the ROS wiki to remember how topics work. Furthermore, I read through the code of the gmapping package, which is the built in tool for 2D-SLAM in ROS in order to have a deeper understanding of how it works and what should be changed to implement my alterations when the time comes.
The basic websites I used are the following:
