EECE5554 Assignment 1 Solved

Description

ROS Basics

• The ROS core systems: Packaging, Buildsystems, Messaging, CLI & GUI tools, creating packages, nodes, topics, services, and parameters.
• Writing a Simple Publisher and Subscriber (Python)
• Examining the Simple Publisher and Subscriber
• Writing a Simple Service and Client (Python)
• Examining the Simple Service and Client

• Reading
  • ROS
    • ROS Introduction
    • ROS Get Started GuideIntroduction, Concepts, Higher-Level Concepts,Client Libraries,,Technical Overview
    • ROS developer’s guide
    • ROS Python Style Guide
  • Useful cheat-sheets:
    • ROS cheat-sheet for Kinetic and Catkin
  • Documentation on command line tools
    • rosnode
    • rostopic
    • rosparam
    • rosmsg
  • Assignments to do this week
  • Install ROS Noetic http://wiki.ros.org/noetic/Installation/Ubuntu
    • Complete theseTutorials
      • Installing and Configuring Your ROS Environment.NOTE: in this course we will exclusively use Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and the stable ROS Noetic Release
      • Navigating the ROS Filesystem
      • Creating a ROS Package
      • Building a ROS Package
      • Understanding ROS Nodes
      • Understanding ROS Topics
      • Understanding ROS Services and Parameters
      • Using rqt_console and roslaunch
      • Using rosed to edit files in ROS
      • Creating a ROS msg and a ROS srv
      • Writing a publisher and subscriber in Python
      • Writing a Simple Publisher and Subscriber Python
      • Examining the Simple Publisher and Subscriber
      • Writing a service and client in Python
      • Examining the Simple Service and Client
    • Assignments to hand in this week
    • Assignment#2: Assignments to hand in by the deadline.
      • Write and test a publisher node that publishes a TOPIC and subscriber node that subscribes to this TOPIC.
      • Write and test a server node that provides a SERVICE and client node that calls this SERVICE
        • Check in the assignment into your gitlab account under PA1