ROS2 for Beginners Level 3 – Advanced Concepts

Get Your ROS 2 Skills to the Next Level - ROS2 Actions, Lifecycle Nodes, Executors, Components, and More.

Created by: Edouard Renard
Software Engineer and Robotics Teacher

What Will I Learn?

• Master ROS 2 intermediate and advanced concepts
• ROS2 Actions, Lifecycle Nodes, Executors, Components
• Take your ROS2 skills to the next level
• Generate and build an Action Definition
• Write a complete Action server and client
• Choose and implement an Action goal policy
• Use Lifecycle nodes to create an initialization sequence for your nodes
• Understand how the spin works
• Use the single threaded and multi threaded executors
• Add several nodes in one executable (composition)
• Create a ROS2 component to load at run time
• Discover more ROS2 command line tools
• Learn the best practices right from the start
• Practice with extra challenges and projects

Requirements

• You need to have some ROS 2 basics. If you’re new to ROS 2, I suggest starting with my “ROS2 For Beginners” course (level 1)
• You can also take the level 2 course, however a direct bridge between level 1 and level 3 is possible.
• You need to have Ubuntu installed on your computer (best as a dual boot)

Target audience

• ROS developers who know the basics and want to take their skills to the next level.
• Engineers/Teachers/Researchers/Anyone who wants to fully exploit the intermediate and advanced features of ROS2, to create better robotics applications.
• ROS developers who are interested in understanding the underlying ROS2 core concepts of ros2_control, nav2, and moveit2.
• Anyone lost in documentation, or who doesn’t understand what they do.