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ROS Software Maintainers: Michael Ferguson (Unbounded Robotics), Tully Foote (OSRF), Melonee Wise (Unbounded Robotics), Daniel Stonier (Yujin Robot)

Overview

Feel free to contribute, especially if you find problems (it's all lies, damned lies!). Fix directly or raise the issue on the turtlebot sig mailing list.

Installation

  1. Installation

    Installation instructions from iso, deb or sources.

  2. Post-Installation Setup

    Customised configuration for your robot setup.

  3. Workstation Installation

    Installing the software for your monitoring workstation pc.

  4. Network Configuration

    Get turtlebot and your workstation chatting to each other.

Getting Started

Bringup

  1. TurtleBot Bringup

    How to start the TurtleBot software.

  2. TurtleBot Care and Feeding

    This tutorials explains how to charge and maintain your TurtleBot.

  3. 3D Visualisation

    Visualising 3d and camera data from the kinect/asus.

Teleoperation

  1. Keyboard Teleop

    Keyboard teleoperation of a turtlebot.

  2. Joystick Teleop

    Joystick teleoperation of a turtlebot.

  3. Interactive Markers Teleop

    A tutorial describing how to use rviz interactive markers for controlling the TurtleBot.

Calibration

  1. TurtleBot Odometry and Gyro Calibration

    /!\ Only necessary if you have a Create base which is using an external gyro. This will show you how to calibrate or test the calibration of a TurtleBot which is highly recommended when running any navigation based application.

Advanced Usage

Navigation

  1. SLAM Map Building with TurtleBot

    How to generate a map using gmapping

  2. Autonomous Navigation of a Known Map with TurtleBot

    This tutorial describes how to use the TurtleBot with a previously known map.

Something Funny

  1. The TurtleBot Follower Demo

    This describes how to run the TurtleBot Follower Demo on your TurtleBot.

  2. The TurtleBot Panorama Demo

    This describes how to run the TurtleBot Panorama Demo on your TurtleBot.

Interesting Software

  1. The TurtleBot Panorama Demo

    This describes how to run the TurtleBot Panorama Demo on your TurtleBot.

App Platform

Before getting started on this section, you may wish to investigate the information and tutorials in rocon_app_platform.

  1. The Turtlebot App Manager

    Getting to know the new app manager - pairing and concert modes.

  2. Turtlebot-Android Pairing

    Pairing your android with turtlebot applications.

  3. Building Existing Android Apps

    Installation and build instructions for existing TurtleBot Android applications.

  4. Create a Robot App

    How to create and install a robot application (rapp) for pairing or concert modes.

  5. Create an Android App

    How to create an android app for robot-android pairing.

Support

For questions about software, please use the standard ways to get support for ROS.

Contributing

Library Overview

Basic Configuration

Capabilities

ROS packages

Robot-specific Messages

kobuki_msgs, create_node, turtlebot_msgs

Robot model (URDF)

turtlebot_description, kobuki_description/create_description

Hardware Drivers

Components

ROS packages

Actuator Drivers

kobuki_driver, create_driver

Mobile Base Nodes

kobuki_node, create_node

Sensor Drivers

openni_camera, depthimage_to_laserscan

High-Level Capabilities

Components

ROS packages

Navigation

turtlebot_navigation

Teleop

turtlebot_teleop

Interactive Markers

turtlebot_interactive_markers

Visualization

turtlebot_rviz_launchers, turtlebot_dashboard

Applications

Components

ROS packages

Simulation

turtlebot_simulator

App Manager

turtlebot_app_manager

Turtlebot Apps

turtlebot_apps

Android Apps

turtlebot_android

Coming Soon

Components

ROS packages

Manipulation

turtlebot_arm


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