Running Example Research SDK Programs
- You have completed all of the Getting Started - Setup Guide instructions for setting up your robot and development machine.
- This includes all steps through Installing the RSDK on your computer.
- The developer workstation has been connected to Baxter and connectivity has been validated - instructions here.
- You have successfully commanded Baxter from a sample program running on the development workstation. Congratulations!
- Initialize your environment:
Navigate to the proper directory:
bash $ cd ros_ws
For each new Terminal, Make sure you have edited your baxter.sh script, and then run:
bash $ ./baxter.sh <baxter_hostname>
For more details see Init your sdk environment
- Build and Install all the example code (only need to do this once):
$ catkin_make $ catkin_make install
Pick from any of the examples on the Example Programs page.
- To run an example, use:
Tip: Package names for most of the examples can be found under the '<catkin_ws>/src/baxter_examples' folder. Use <Tab> to Auto-Complete names.
$ rosrun <example_package> <example_program> [optional arguments]
