UAVs@B ROS Intro

Materials from the UAVs@Berkeley Introduction to ROS Workshop.

Demo Instructions

(using ROS Development Studio or a local install of ROS Kinetic)

Create a new ROS package

cd catkin_ws/src

catkin_create_pkg chatter std_msgs rospy roscpp

Build the workspace

cd ~/catkin_ws

catkin_make

Create a talker node

cd ~/catkin_ws/src/chatter/src

(Write the talker.py file)

Create a listener node

(Write the listener.py file)

Make nodes executable

chmod +x talker.py listener.py

Build the workspace again

cd ~/catkin_ws

catkin_make

Run the nodes!

(In separate terminals)

roscore
rosrun chatter talker.py
rosrun chatter listner.py