Welcome

This is the home of the COM2009 (& 3009) ROS lab course: a practical course designed for the "COM2009-3009 Robotics" module, a second-year undergraduate module for Computer Science students in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Sheffield. The lab course is developed by Dr Tom Howard, a University Teacher in the Department of Multidisciplinary Engineering Education.

The course here is designed to teach students how to use ROS (the Robot Operating System) to program robots, using a mix of simulation-based learning and real robot hardware. Most of the initial learning is done in simulation, and we've got a WSL-based simulation environment that we use for this. Everything that is taught in simulation is applicable to real robots too, and - through this course - students are able to apply their new-found ROS knowledge to our real TurtleBot3 Waffle Robots in The Diamond.

Other Courses

This site is now also used to support the teaching of labs for an AMRC Training Centre module (AMR31001), and the course has also been adapted for a masters-level module for the department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering (ACS6121). See Other Courses for more details.