Embedded Motion Control/Tutorials

1. System Overview (todo)
2. Installing Ubuntu (todo)
3. Customizing Ubuntu (todo)
4. Installing and configuring ROS
5. Navigating the ROS filesystem
6. Creating a ROS package
7. Using Subversion to share and manage your project
8. Building a ROS package
9. On the ROS tutorials page, do tutorials 5 (Understanding ROS Nodes) to 17 (Recording and playing back data), but keep this in mind:
   • If you can choose between rosbuild and catkin, select rosbuild
   • If you can choose between C++ and Python, select C++
   • Whenever the tutorial refers to the beginners_tutorial ROS package, use the name of the package you created above instead (that is, beginners_tutorial_<YOUR_NAME>). Of course, you can use TAB completion when possible.
   • The path to your ROS package differs from the path in the ROS tutorials
10. Do the following (ROS-independent) C++ tutorials:
    1. cplusplus.com: up until Name visibility
    2. MIT's Introduction to C++: up until Classes
    • Remarks:
      • For now, use a simple editor such as gedit. We will install an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) later.
      • Once you have saved your C++ program (e.g. as example.cpp), it can be compiled from a terminal using:

        g++ example.cpp -o example

        and run with

        ./example

11. Setting up an IDE
12. Setting up the PICO simulator
13. Creating your first PICO-related ROS package