ROS Tutorials

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

1.1 Beginner Level

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1. Installing and configuring your ROS environment

We recommend ROS-hydro on Ubuntu 12.04, instructions given on this link. The commands are given below.

If not using Ubuntu 12.04 and installing hydro: please refer to instructions given here.

Setup sources list:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu precise main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'

2. Navigating the ROS Filesystem

3. Creating a ROS Package

4. Building a ROS Package

5. Understanding ROS Nodes

6. Understanding ROS Topics