Tutorials

Hands-on lessons that take you from a fresh machine to a robot balancing itself — and then to running your own robot. Each tutorial is a short, self-contained session you can follow top to bottom.

If you’ve never worked with control systems before, read The big ideas, in plain words first (ten minutes, no math) so the words here land.

The path

	Tutorial	What you’ll do
1	Set up and see the robot	Install everything and watch the example robot move in your browser.
2	Design your first controller	Use the web app to turn the wobbly pendulum into a stable one — no code.
3	Read the response	Learn what the animation and the plots are actually telling you.
4	Make it balance in simulation	Run your controller on a physics-simulated robot in Gazebo and steer it.
5	Use your own robot	Point the whole pipeline at a different URDF.

Do them in order the first time — each builds on the last. Tutorials 1–3 need only a laptop; tutorial 4 adds the Gazebo simulator.