3. ROS With Git From The Ground Up Tutorial Series
Author: Brandon Rice
ROS stands for Robot Operating System, and is an open source collection of tools, frameworks, and other software components to help users write code to control robots quicker, cheaper, and simpler! Please view this following video by Robotics and IoT for a brief overview of ROS and its capabilities (it's recommended to play at 1.25x speed):
Click the image above to go to the YouTube video!
I feel this short video by Mobile Robotics does a good job wrapping up the loose ends from the video above and would also recommend viewing it before proceeding:
So if you are interested in learning how to set up ROS, continue watching the following videos.
View the full playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAdHUFXLvk2c14ui5r4-0dhJGUGZKca6e
In this tutorial, we install ROS Melodic Morenia on our Ubuntu 18.04 installation. We also set up a catkin workspace to hold our ROS packages.
Main ROS Tutorial: http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/InstallingandConfiguringROSEnvironment
Catkin Workspace Creation Tutorial: http://wiki.ros.org/catkin/Tutorials/create_a_workspace
In this tutorial, we install Git and clone an existing Git repository to our computer. We then make a file, add it to a commit, and push the commit to the GitHub server.
Important: if you would like to use Python 3, please follow these steps before you execute the ROS installation step so you don't have to uninstall ROS for Python 2 and reinstall ROS for Python 2 and 3. The ROS installation step looks something like:
sudo apt install ros-melodic-desktop-fulldepending on which version you choose to install in step 1.4.
Git: https://git-scm.com/
GitHub: https://github.com/
In this tutorial, we clone Sun Devil Robotics Club's urc-code Git repository to our computer. We learn how to install 3rd party ROS packages (libraries) and how to use SDRC's auto-installer: install.sh.
SDRC urc-code Repository: https://github.com/sundevilrobotics/urc-code
Currently, this is the end of my personal videos about ROS, but here is a few more from other YouTubers.
Note: We use ROS 1 (Not ROS 2) and C++ not Python, but other than that, Sid Faber does a great job!