ROS Operations and Basic Concepts

This tutorial assumes that you will be working in ROS-groovy on Ubuntu 12.04. This wiki is based on the tutorials given here. And the book “A gentle introduction to ROS” by Jason M.O’Kane.

Basic operations and concepts

Open the terminal. To complete each step, type in the following commands in the order shown.

1. Basic Elements of ROS
2. Installing and Configuration of ROS in your workstation
3. File system manipulation
4. Package creation and building
5. Learning Node Commands
6. ROS topics
7. Basic Concepts of ROS
8. Let's install turtlesim packages
9. Let’s talk about packages again
10. Master and Nodes
11. Knowing Topics and Messages in depth
12. A simple “Hello ROS” program
13. Start writing your own publisher program
14. Start writing your own subscriber program
15. Start and Running multiple nodes simultaneously- create launch file
16. Communicating differently- service and clients
17. Record and Replay your message data
18. Make your own robot- Make URDF
19. Running ROS in Multiple Machines

Working with Robots

1. Installing Baxter sdk in workstation
2. Configuring Baxter-Gazebo simulation environment
3. Writing programs to run Baxter