This is repository for the course ROS2 Ultimate guide for Kuka 6 DOF and Custom Robotic Arms availble at Udemy . Complete source code is open sourced . Notes are also attached in root of the repository.

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• Move into your workspace/src folder

cd path/to/ros1_ws/src/
##e.g cd ~/catkin_ws/src/

• Clone the repository in your workspace

git clone https://github.com/noshluk2/ROS2-Ultimate-guide-for-Custom-Robotic-Arms-and-Kuka-Kr210

• Perform make and build through catkin

cd /path/to/workspace_root/
##e.g ~/catkin_ws/
catkin_make

• Source your Workspace in any terminal you open to Run files from this workspace ( which is a basic thing of ROS )

source /path/to/catkin-ws/devel/setup.bash

• (Optional for Power USERs only) Add source to this workspace into bash file

echo "source /path/to/catkin-ws/devel/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc

NOTE: This upper command is going to add the source file path into your ~/.bashrc file ( Only perform it once and you know what you are doing).This will save your time when running things from the Workspace

• We will start by creating a custom robot named as Big BAZU . Which will be created from scratch , URDF containing joints, links are going to be explored in depth. Once the robotic arm will be created we will add Controllers into it (position, effort, Joint Trajectory) from ros_control package .This will lead us to DH tables for forward and inverse kinematics solutions for our custom robot using IKPY a python library.

• After understanding all the basics of with a Custom Robotic Arm we will move to a very well known commercial robotic arm KUKA KR210 6 degree of freedom robotic arm. Our first Object will be to install custom controller into it as we would have learned that in previous sections .Only reason to do that is to be able to control any working URDF robot available . Forward and inverse kinematics will be solved for this robot with the help of robotics tool box mentioned earlier .

• Last thing we will do is to make a action lib interface for Joint Trajectory for KUKA robot so we just need to send way points and it moves it's end effect in a shape that we will define .

• Building Custom Robotic Arm BIG BAZU
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• BIG BAZU Controllers Test
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• Forward and Inverse Kinematics Solutions
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• Drawing Shapes
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Software Based

• Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS)
• ROS1 - Noetic

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Distributed under the GNU-GPL License. See LICENSE for more information.