Ros Tutorial

The purpose of this project is to document our implementation of ROS and teach lab members how to use it for a number of purposes specific to the activities of a robotics lab like the IDEAlab.

In contrast with its name, ROS is not an operating system. It is a way to have vast, disparate sources of data come together in networked way in order to perform tasks important to robotics, such as simulation, sensing, control, learning, and teleoperation. It coordinates the transfer of information from one place to another in a way that is scalable

This tutorial series has been deprecated as it has not been checked or tested in a couple years. Please use it for inspiration but not as a a source of truth

Running Ros on a Raspbery Pi 4 with Raspberry Pi OS

Introduction

Installing ROS on a Raspberry Pi 4 is difficult because, though the ubuntu images seem …

Getting UVC working with Raspberry Pi

Steps

  1. install uvc stuff.

    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install -y libuvc-dev guvcview cheese v4l-utils …

CV Bridge and Python 3

getting cv_bridge working with python 3 is less straightforward. you need to recompile cv_bridge …

Korg Nano

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="0944", ATTR{idProduct}=="010f", …

LibCamera Info

LibCamera

Read more about the new libcamera. This may make some of the following information old

Setting up OptiTrack

Install

sudo apt install -y ros-melodic-mocap-optitrack …

Ubuntu Prep

In ubuntu

  1. Check that you are a member of the following groups