Autonomous navigation with Pepper robots
We extended the Pepper robot with additional sensors and implemented the powerful ROS navigation stack to achieve autonomous navigation with Pepper.
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Linux
Hokuyo UST-10LX with ROS setup
In this post I describe how to set up and configure a Raspberry Pi 3 to collect laser data from the Hokuyo UST-10LX sensor via ROS.
Docker + ROS: How to listen to ROS nodes in external Docker containers
Learn how to configure Docker for comminucation with ROS.
Automatically backup any Postgres database table into a GoogleDrive
Learn how you can backup any Postgress database table into a GoogleDrive folder using two small scripts and the crontab.
Python
Soft Actor Critic: Deep Reinforcement Learning for robotics?
This post addresses real life feasibility of deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms and how the Soft Actor Critic algorithm relates to the problem.
Decorate-Sort-Undecorate: Advanced list sorting in Python
Understand the 'Decorate-Sort-Undecorate' idiom for advanced sorting in python.
Automatically backup any Postgres database table into a GoogleDrive
Learn how you can backup any Postgress database table into a GoogleDrive folder using two small scripts and the crontab.
Machine Learning
Soft Actor Critic: Deep Reinforcement Learning for robotics?
This post addresses real life feasibility of deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms and how the Soft Actor Critic algorithm relates to the problem.
Machine Learning fundamentals I: An analogy
In part one of the 'Machine Learning fundamentals' series, we explore the Loss Landscape and its association to the Gradient Descent algorithm.