BOW SDK Tutorials & Examples

Tutorials

Welcome to the BOW SDK Tutorial Index, check out our catalogue of tutorials below.

Using BOW

The tutorials below guide you through the process of creating a BOW enabled application and how to structure your programs, from basic single robot applications through to more advanced implementations.

The Basics

Welcome to the first set of BOW Tutorials, these tutorials are an introduction to BOW. Designed to get you up and running with our SDK and working with robots as fast as possible!

Step 1: Sensing

How to sense the Environment with BOW

Step 2: Sensing & Acting

How to move around the Environment with BOW

Intermediate

These tutorials are designed to give you an understanding of some of the more advanced capabilities that the BOW SDK can provide, such as controlling multiple robots at once or using the get_robots function to programmatically choose a robot to connect to.

Multi-Robot Control

How to control multiple robots at once with BOW

Modalities

The tutorials below are broken down into modalities. Each section contains tutorials which are aimed at teaching you how to use each element of that modality. This will enable you to fully understand each field in the BOW Data message, how it works and how to use the data in a real world application.

Motor

Locomotion

How to move around the Environment with BOW

Joint Control: Inverse Kinematics

How to tell a robot's effector to go to a specific point in 3D space with BOW

Joint Control: Direct Joint Control

How to directly address a robot's joint controls with BOW

Vision

Vision: Displaying images

How to display camera images using BOW

Exteroception

Range Sensing: Sonar

How to access and use sonar data

Examples

These examples are designed to showcase some complete applications which combine multiple elements from the tutorials and demonstrate how you can integrate external applications and programs with BOW to bring your robots alive!