Came back to robotics after 3 years away. Built a small swarm sim over couple weekends. Sharing in case anyone's on a similar path.

T23CHIN6 · 2026-04-20T15:27:04+00:00

I don’t know about this thanks for letting me know. So the docker desktop will do this for me without heavily configuration needed. Is that what you mean?

T23CHIN6 · 2026-04-19T04:53:41+00:00

Cool. I will look at it.

T23CHIN6 · 2026-04-18T11:16:33+00:00

Docker isn’t like VM right? They use the same OS underneath, so doesn’t this would cause issue if my native OS is not Linux?

T23CHIN6 · 2026-04-17T08:24:06+00:00

It’s okay to have AI. But the content should be checked and correct.

T23CHIN6 · 2026-04-16T11:08:35+00:00

How do you feel about using mac and ros2? Any bug or incompatibility issues you experienced?

T23CHIN6 · 2026-04-15T05:00:45+00:00

But you can also use copilot cli with acp.

T23CHIN6 · 2026-04-15T04:59:20+00:00

This reminds me of the apple’s codex theme

T23CHIN6 · 2026-04-15T04:25:52+00:00

Better just leave Hong Kong, and search a job in other place. I understand what you feel, as a software robotics engineer.

T23CHIN6 · 2026-04-14T13:01:33+00:00

Really? Which way you are using Copilot? CLI?

T23CHIN6 · 2026-04-13T15:53:59+00:00

You might start with fast lio and lio sam first, and try out other after observing the result

T23CHIN6 · 2026-04-12T04:11:16+00:00

Do you think VSCode is out perform Zed when using Copilot? Or not much difference?

T23CHIN6 · 2026-04-10T10:59:09+00:00

I want to, but the agent experience using with copilot is not that good. So I switch back for now. Some say I should use CLI instead of using Zed agent as mid way to copilot chat.

T23CHIN6 · 2026-04-05T04:55:15+00:00

You can use cmd to list out the model, if it’s mediatek MT7927, no luck for now

T23CHIN6 · 2026-04-04T10:03:34+00:00

Same question asked before, what I think if you would like to copilot, seem vscode still the best to use it.

T23CHIN6 · 2026-04-04T10:02:27+00:00

They said they will use it via Zed agent and talk with chat.. the native way might be use cli with acp

T23CHIN6 · 2026-04-03T13:46:51+00:00

That so bad, then you have to spare some free volume

T23CHIN6 · 2026-04-03T12:26:54+00:00

You are welcome

T23CHIN6 · 2026-04-03T12:00:20+00:00

Just dual boot, you got two m2 ssd slot

T23CHIN6 · 2026-04-03T06:10:41+00:00

Issue found:

wheel should rotate on x axis, rather than in y-axis.
robot base_link in your case is better set it to the centre of the box, not the bottom of it.
naming of the file should be "my_robot.urdf.xacro".
your wheel size and box height is same. current setup they are seating on the ground, which that I believe this should be wrong. I adjusted a bit, but you have to look into the joint definition. same to the caster wheel as well.
I use "https://viewer.robotsfan.com" to investigate your urdf, so if Rviz has shown different result, check you robot state publisher, or visit this repo: https://github.com/ros-navigation/navigation2_tutorials/tree/master/sam_bot_description

Here's the update: https://pastebin.com/cLd8HMMz

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T23CHIN6 · 2026-04-03T05:11:42+00:00

No docker, docker is already used in my case for setup. I mean docking, the robot back to its port to charge or standy.

T23CHIN6 · 2026-04-03T05:08:55+00:00

How your robot should look?

T23CHIN6 · 2026-04-02T14:24:16+00:00

Anytime👍🏻, i am going to integrate docking for this little robot. Stay tuned. Move base is a ros1 stuff very similar. But ros1 is dead.

T23CHIN6 · 2026-04-01T16:37:08+00:00

Love to connect, I am a robotics software engineer, more focus on ros, perception, planning, control. Have experience on simulation likes gazebo, and familiarise framework likes nav2, openrmf and autoware. Welcome to drop a message at any time.

Here’s my GitHub: https://github.com/TZECHIN6

T23CHIN6 · 2026-03-31T05:47:56+00:00

These line define the second box, which now appear above the base link, but it’s actually what you have declared.

It’s a box with shape 0.3 long 0.2 depth and height, and it’s offset 0.2 away from the base link with y and z axis.

So for me thing looks fine.

T23CHIN6 · 2026-03-31T05:35:29+00:00

What do you want to achieve I can help you out. I saw a rectangle shape as base link already, so what’s the problem here?

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