Instructor: Prof. Mario Selvaggio
Assistant: Ing. Federico Esposito

• Monday, 8:30-10:30, Room NA-T-A5
• Wednesday, 8:30-10:30, Room NA-T-A6

Lectures are taught in person. Microsoft Teams (MT) platform will be used in case of attendance issues, to share class material, and general course's organization. Students are kindly invited to join the MT class with code 54323xg.

Send an e-mail (using the tag [RL2026] in subject) to the instructor or to the assistant(s) to communicate with us. You can book a 1-hour meeting via the appointment scheduling feature provided by google calendar. The assistantship will be provided in person or via the MT platform.

In this course you will learn how to efficiently build robotic applications using the Robot Operating System (ROS), that provides you access to a large set of open-source software and tools. Students will learn from partaking in practical activities.

• Understanding the ROS architecture, programming, and tools
• Creating ROS C++ programs using external libraries
• Simulating and controlling a robotic system to perform a task

• Introduction and course overview
• ROS essentials:
• Preliminary setup: linux operating system, git, docker, C++ programming
• ROS introduction, programming & tools
• ROS robot simulation
• ROS robot motion planning
• Manipulation:
• Kinematics and dynamics
• Vision sensors
• Autonomous navigation:
• Differential drive mobile robot
• Navigation & SLAM

No textbook recommended. Links to useful online resources will be shared along the course.

The exam consists of an oral discussion of a technical project developed along the course. Students not attending are required to contact the instructor to define the technical project to be developed in simulation.

Here is a tentative schedule of lectures. Readings and assignments will be added as they become available.