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There are no tutorials for this stack but I would like to know what it does and how to install.
I have turtlebot installed on a laptop connected to a Roomba with a serial SCI. My first step is to get teleop going. Help please.
The stack is actually called roomba_robot and roomba_500_series is a package in it. You just need to check out the stack repository and add the directory to ROS_PACKAGE_PATH. The repository seems to be an SVN repository, so you can get it by:
svn co http://isr-uc-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/unstable/roomba_robot
I actually prefer using rosinstall for managing my ROS_PACKAGE_PATH. To use it, you can install/update rosinstall by executing:
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
sudo easy_install -U rosinstall
Then create a rosinstall file for roomba_robot:
roslocate info roomba_robot > ~/roomba-robot.rosinstall
Now create an overlay of your rosinstallation with roomba_robot added:
rosinstall ~/ros_roomba /opt/ros/electric ~/roomba-robot.rosinstall
Now edit your ~/.bashrc and replace the line
source /opt/ros/electric/setup.bash
by
source ~/ros_roomba/setup.bash
Make sure to open a new terminal or execute the above source command by hand. Now you should be able to rosmake roomba_500_series.
If you go to the roomba_500_series webpage you'll notice under dependencies that you also need cereal_port, meaning you'll need to download both roomba_robot and serial_communication stacks.
http://www.ros.org/wiki/roomba_robot
http://www.ros.org/wiki/serial_communication
You can do that using svn as suggested earlier into a folder on your ROS_PACKAGE_PATH, do not download them into your ROS installation stacks folder!!! Take a look at this tutorial I wrote on how to install the software for a Roomba netbook. You can edit the rosinstall file there to meet your requirements. It was created for our lab Roombas so your probably don't need some of the stacks there.
Hope this helps!
Hey I also would like to install software for the roomba 521
I have the following error:
..@turtleBot1:~$ svn co http://isr-uc-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/... : E160013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'http://isr-uc-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/unstable/roomba_robot' svn: E160013: '/svn/trunk/unstable/roomba_robot' path not found
Does that mean your code is no longer avilable=?
Is it possible to get it somewhere else?
Asked: 2011-09-14 17:36:28 -0500
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Last updated: Nov 24 '16
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