GPrathap/ros_intro

Introduction to ROS

Course Structure 👾

• Section 1 👽
  • ROS Fundamentals 📚 lecture 01 📚 lecture 02 📜 code
  • Workout Examples 📚 lecture 03 📜 code
• Section 2 👽
  • ROS Visualization 📚 lecture 04 📜 code
  • ROS Debugging 📚 lecture 05 📜 code
  • ROS Basic Control 📚
  • ROS Simulation (Gazebo+URDF) 📚 lecture 06 📜 code
• Section 3 👽
  • Mini Group Project
• References
  • http://wiki.ros.org/Documentation
  • Learning ROS for Robotics Programming by Aaron Martinez and Enrique Fernández

Instruction for running the docker container

chmod + section00/run_ros_node_[cpu|gpu].sh

To create a docker container (name ros_intro_node)

./section00/run_ros_node_[cpu|gpu].sh run 

To enter the container

./section00/run_ros_node_[cpu|gpu].sh enter 

To start the container

./section00/run_ros_node_[cpu|gpu].sh start 

To stop the container

./section00/run_ros_node_[cpu|gpu].sh stop

References 📚

Notes: In our cousrse (Summer 2022 version): we are using Ubuntu 20.04, ROS Noetic, and catkin package for build (i.e. we are using catkin build not catkin_make, if you are interested to know history of catkin). In some of the following sources, they might use different settings

• A course from edX: link
• ROS industrial course: link
• Learning ROS for Robotics Programming by Aaron Martinez and Enrique Fernández: link
• Learning ROS for Robotics Programming by Aaron Martinez and Enrique Fernández GitHub exercises: link
• ROS best practices from ETH-Zurich: link, Course link
• ROS Enhancement Protocol includes the conventions and style guide: link
• The Missing Semester of Your CS Education from MIT: link
• Linux commands cheat sheet: link1, link2
• Catkin cheat sheet: link
• ROS cheat sheet: link