. The Master version of this course is Vision for Autonomous Robots, so also check this labbook.

February 18, 2026

February 12, 2026

The outdoor 3D-SLAM video of Erik Nelson seems to be based on his BLAM code (B(erkeley) L(ocalization) A(nd) M(apping)!.
Would be nice to try it together with our Velodyne.
The code is ROS Indigo based (Ubuntu 14.04).
RoboStack only provides ROS1 Noetic and ROS2 Humble.
My XPS13 has Ubuntu 16.04, so ROS Kinetic. The ROS Indigo package was removed 2021.
I updated nb-ros from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 in 2014.
In 2021, I see instructions for the Realsense 200 based on a virtual Ubuntu 14.04 image.
The code is based in GTSLAM, so could also try to use it directly.
There are ROS2 velodyne drivers. Seems the code behind official documentation.
There is ROS1 Velodyne tutorial. There is also a non-official ROS2 tutorial, combined with a Jetson Nano.
Worked with Velodyne with ROS1 Noetic on 2024 (and used Tunis for the KUKA, which is also ROS Kinect).
Velodyne should also work with RTAM-map, as observed in 2024.
The most active fork is Naisy, which was tested on several newer version of ROS1 (including Melodic, even on a Jetpack).
Started with ROS 2 tutorial.
Yet, I don´t see the fixed ethernet connection. Tried both the Dell adapter as the KY-888.
Strange, when a connect Nao v5 #17 it says it ip-address, but I cannot ping it.

Updated the 2nd lecture, on kinematics, from last years version.
Checked the AMR course at EDX. Was archived on Dec 19, 2025. Saw no new version.
Progress was up-to Mobile Robot Kinematics module, working on the questions for the Swedisch Wheel.
Watched the Locomotion concepts lectures again.