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Vehicle Dynamics Sim: accurately and easily simulate actuation limits

Why your navigation controller works in simulation yet fails on hardware

13 min read · November 29, 2025

2025 · ROS software simulation
Software Freedom Day talk @HSBXL

A celebration of open source robotics software

38 min read · November 2, 2025

2025 · ROS software open source
Integration and unit testing in ROS 2

Ready, test, go! (feat. colcon, launch_testing and ament_cmake_ros)

12 min read · October 13, 2024

2024 · ROS software
Sensor fusion: be sure of uncertainty

So how large is my error? (without actually running the filter)

14 min read · June 15, 2024

2024 · kalman filtering
Inverse kinematics with KDL in ROS 2

Getting started with the Kinematics and Dynamics Library in ROS 2

8 min read · May 5, 2024

2024 · ROS software