ROS Tutorials

Practicing writing a wiki page- all information below is incomplete until otherwise noted.

Aside to editor, to improve:

This tutorial assumes that you will be working in ROS-hydro on Ubuntu 12.04. This wiki is based on the tutorials given here.

Beginner Level

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

1. Installing and configuring your ROS environment
2. Navigating the ROS Filesystem
3. Creating a ROS Package
4. Building a ROS Package
5. Understanding ROS Nodes
6. Understanding ROS Topics
7. Understanding ROS Services and Parameters
8. Using rqt_consol and roslaunch
9. Using rosed to Edit Files in ROS
10. Creating a ROS msg and srv
11. Writing a Simple Publisher and Subscriber (C++)
12. Writing a Simple Publisher and Subscriber (Python)
13. Examining the Simple Publisher and Subscriber
14. Writing a Simpler Service and Client (C++)
15. Writing a Simpler Service and Client (Python)
16. Examining the Simpler Service and Client
17. Recording and Playing Back Data
18. Getting Started with roswtf
19. Navigating the ROS wiki
20. Where Next?