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hi sir, i'm trying to understand and make robot using arduino. however i'm confused to learn which tutorial should i follow? i mean should i go for catkin tutorials or for main ros one? at present, i have installed indigo and ubuntu 14.
You should start with the beginner ROS tutorials ( http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials ) so that you understand the general ROS framework. Reading the catkin tutorials will give you a better understanding of the way workspaces and packages are structured.
To understand how to create a description (URDF) of your robot for integration with simulation (Gazebo), you can take a look at the URDF tutorials ( http://wiki.ros.org/urdf/Tutorials ), which then lead into the Gazebo + ROS URDF Tutorials ( http://gazebosim.org/tutorials?tut=ro... ).
If you want to write controllers for your robot that will work for both live-operation and simulation, you should take a look at ros_control ( http://wiki.ros.org/ros_control/Tutor... ). This last part will definitely require some digging and a good understanding of ROS and Gazebo first. The Husky robot uses ros_control's diff_drive_controller ( http://wiki.ros.org/diff_drive_contro... ) for mobile base control, so you can take a look at the way it's implemented here:
https://github.com/husky/husky
I take it this is a side project then ? Well ROS only deals with communication between different software and middleware components. If you need a physical simulation for your robot and want to be able to switch between controlling the real robot and it's simulated counterpart the Ros + Rviz + Gazebo software packages is what you will want.
Gazebo is a physics simulator, which is meant to represent the real physical world with your robot. A good Gazebo tutorial here shows how to control a stick robot with a camera and IR sensor.
For ROS it is much easier there are plenty of good tutorials such as the turtle bot ones: http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/Und... .
Rviz is a visualisation display, it is to show you the state of the robot and all sensory information available. You use this both when you are running your simulation in Gazebo and when you are running the real robot.
Asked: 2015-03-30 04:41:39 -0500
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What kind of robot and what task are you considering to do ? From ardigos we page it seams they specialize in hardware devices. I would need a bit more details to give you a clean answer.
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