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Now that you know how ros works, what packages, msgs, nodes, topics are you should move on on the public/subsc http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/WritingPublisherSubscriber%28c%2B%2B%29

create 1st a node that can publish your own msg type, lets say a frame {x,y,z} after that white a node that can receive that information, when that is working you can then edit publisher node and make a GUI for it, if ou like QT the go for QT, you can what ever you want....

Now that you know how ros works, what packages, msgs, nodes, topics are you should move on on the public/subsc http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/WritingPublisherSubscriber%28c%2B%2B%29

create 1st a node that can publish your own msg type, lets say a frame {x,y,z} after that white a node that can receive that information, when that is working you can then edit publisher node and make a GUI for it, if ou like QT the go for QT, you can what ever you want....

About debuging:

if you need to debug you have a couple of options, you can in Terminal (and using ros tool suite) echoes a topic, you can too log the info to a file or to a terminal, you can use a bag(maybe too much for that purposes)