Important announcement

Dear visitor,

Please note that this OpenCourseWare platform will be replaced at the end of 2026 by a new platform (under the same url ocw.tudelft.nl).

Courses and their contents that are currently available the platform will partly be migrated. URL’s for this content will change and content might be unavailable for some time. In addition, some courses will not be available anymore.

If you are linking to specific courses on this platform (for instance for your students), please take timely measures to avoid problems with access. Possible actions are:

  • Download the materials to your local platform (laptop, server)
  • For educators only (including TU Delft lecturers): Contact us at ocw@tudelft.nl and inform us what course you are using in what context (institute, program, period of use, number of students). We will research (in collaboration with the authors of the course) and decide if we will migrate the course, and if yes, can supply you with a new url.

Thank you.

Home Courses Hello (Real) World with ROS – Robot Operating System Course materials Lectures 4.5.1 Move Group interface

4.5.1 Move Group interface

Course subject(s) Module 4. Manipulation

In this lecture, we learn how we enter commands in our own ROS node using the MoveGroup Interface and create a simple pick and place pipeline.

MoveGroup Interface:

  • APIs access capabilities of move_group ROS node
  • MoveIt!-base ROS applications
  • Setup a simple pick and place pipeline
      • using ROS action clients

Conceptual overview

MoveIt takes care of trajectory execution (with Gazebo or hardware)
MoveGroup Interface sends these trajectories (MoveIt! Commander uses this implicitly)

Why?

  • MoveIt! commander scripts
      • program sequence of commands
  • Why learn MoveGroup Interface to do the same thing?
      • access more capabilities
      • process intermediate results
      • flexibility
  • Automated behavior
      • motion module is just one component
      • user input should just be one press
Creative Commons License
Hello (Real) World with ROS - Robot Operating System by TU Delft OpenCourseWare is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://online-learning.tudelft.nl/courses/hello-real-world-with-ros-robot-operating-systems//.
Back to top
[sg_popup id=6]