Robot Operating System Courses in ITIS (KFU) 2018

Getting Started

This course is intended for newbies in Robot Operating System (ROS) Framework.

The most preferred way of getting started is to create a catkin workspace and clone the repository inside it:

mkdir ~/catkin_ws

# workspace will be located at ~/catkin_ws
git clone https://github.com/chupakabra1996/ros-courses-2018.git ~/catkin_ws

Requirements

• Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial)
• ROS Kinetic (installation)
• C++ (GNU GCC ver. 5.4+).
• Favorite IDE or Text Editor (e.g. CLion, QtCreator + ROS plugin)

Build & Run

Build (using catkin_make):

cd ~/catkin_ws && catkin_make [--pkg package_name]

# for bash users
source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash

# for zsh users
source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.zsh

To run a node (executable) inside the package:

# do not forget to start a master node at first
roscore

rosrun <package_name> <node_name> [params ...]

Tests

• Run unit tests (gtest):

# from the ~/catkin_ws/
catkin_make run_tests[_package_name]

# or from the ~/catking_ws/build
make run_tests[_package_name]

• Run integration tests (rostest):

rostest <package_name> <launch file.test>

Useful resources

• ROS Tutorials
• How to run tests for specific package

Contribution

This repo is only for educational purposes.

Bug reports and enhancement proposals are welcomed.