About

1. Turtlebot-Developer Habitats

   Various usage scenarios for turtlebots and their developers.

2. Interacting with your Turtlebot

   The many ways you can provoke/inspire your turtlebot to action!

Preparation

1. Turtlebot Installation

   Installing software onto the turtlebot.

2. PC Installation

   Installing the software for your monitoring workstation pc.

3. Network Configuration

   Get turtlebot and your pc chatting to each other.

Bringup

1. TurtleBot Bringup

   How to start the TurtleBot software.

2. PC Bringup

   Connecting to the turtlebot from the PC.

3. TurtleBot Care and Feeding

   This tutorials explains how to charge and maintain your TurtleBot.

4. Create Odometry and Gyro Calibration

   This is only necessary if you have a Create base. The Kobuki comes with a factory calibrated 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.

Applications

Looking Around

1. A First Interaction

   Run your first interaction with the turtlebot - chatter!

2. Visualisation

   Find and call launchers to visualise the turtle and its data streams.

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. Qt Teleop

   Qt teleoperation of a turtlebot.

4. Interactive Markers Teleop

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

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.

Android Interactions

1. Download Turtlebot Android Apps from Play Store

   Download android apps from Play Store to run turtlebot rapps on your turtlebot via android device

2. How to Run Turtlebot Andorid Application

   Instructions how to run turtlebot android application

3. Turtlebot Android Application Dev Tutorial

   Instructions how to develop turtlebot android app

Simulation

Development Corner

1. Customising the Turtle

   Pre-load your own customisations/configuration on the turtle.

2. Create your First Rapp

   Create, load and execute a 'babbler' rapp, and, is it really worth the effort?

3. Create your First Interaction

   Create, load and execute a 'babbler' interaction.

4. Adding New 3D Sensor

   Add support for a new 3D sensor to the turtlebot stack.

5. Adding a lidar to the turtlebot using hector_models (Hokuyo UTM-30LX)

   A revised tutorial for adding a Hokuyo Lidar to the turtlebot, updated for Indigo and uses the hector_models package

Tutorials describing how to develop android interactions can be found in the android corner.

Appendix

Rocon QT App manager

1. Start Rapp with QT App manager

   How to start implementation rapps with Rocon Qt App manager

Multi TurtleBot Concert

Other Resources

• Turtlebot Quick Start Tutorials - Gaitech EDU Portal

• learn.turtlebot.com

• Getting Start TurtleBot with Matlab