ROS-Lecture

This repo contains all the codes and files which will be used during the lecture so it is suggested to clone this repo to your local PC. Further instructions are given below please follow them for a smooth conduct. You are also advised to download the lecture slides from HERE and the cheatsheat provided in this repo.

Preparations

Everyone please come prepared. Details are given below what you need to do.

Prerequisites

Please make sure you have ubuntu running on your system. Here are the installation Instructions for Ubuntu( Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is recommended). If you don't want to Dual Boot, install Ubuntu in Virtualbox(http://virtualbox.org/)
Know the ubuntu release you had been using.
ROS is installed according to your ubuntu release.
Arduino IDE.
A good text editor, like Sublime Text Editor.
And your dedication :)

Installations

ROS have different distributions for different release of ubuntu. So, you need to install accordingly. Links for installation instruction for different distributions and supported ubuntu release are given below. Execute the command for Desktop-Full

ROS Distribution	Ubuntu Release	Installation Instructions
Lunar	Zesty(17.04), Xenial (16.04 LTS)	http://wiki.ros.org/lunar/Installation/Ubuntu
Kinetic	Xenial (16.04 LTS), Wily (15.10)	http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic/Installation/Ubuntu
Jade	Ubuntu 15.04	http://wiki.ros.org/jade/Installation/Ubuntu
Indigo	Saucy (13.10) and Trusty (14.04)	http://wiki.ros.org/indigo/Installation/Ubuntu

Install Arduino IDE using the following command

$ sudo apt-get install java-common
$ sudo apt-get install arduino

Install rosserial

$ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-rosserial ros-kinetic-rosserial-server ros-kinetic-rosserial-arduino ros-kinetic-rosserial-python

Please replace kinetic with the ROS distribution you are using.

Verify your installation for ROS

In two seperate terminal window execute these two commands and verify whether a blue window opens up with a turtle in its center or not.

$ roscore
$ rosrun turtlesim turtlesim_node

Setting up your ROS Workspace

Run the following commands in series to setup your workspace.

$ mkdir -p ~/catkin_ws/src
$ cd ~/catkin_ws/
$ catkin_make

Now run this command

$ gedit ~/.bashrc

and add this source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash at the end of the .bashrc file.

Setting up your Arduino IDE

First of all run the following commands one by one. Replace (sketchbook) with your exact location of Arduino IDE sketchbook.

$ cd ~/catkin_ws/src
$ git clone https://github.com/ros-drivers/rosserial.git
$ cd ~/catkin_ws/
$ catkin_make
$ rosrun rosserial_arduino make_libraries.py (sketchbook)/libraries

Verify for Arduino IDE setup

Open Arduino IDE and check whether you can see ros_lib folder inside Examples.

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