Embedded Motion Control/Tutorials

1. Introduction
2. Installing Ubuntu
3. Customizing Ubuntu
4. Do the following (ROS-independent) C++ tutorials:
   1. cplusplus.com: up to and including Name visibility
   2. MIT's Introduction to C++: up to and including Classes
   • Remarks:
     • For now, use a simple editor such as gedit (the ubuntu version of Wordpad). We will install a more advanced editor (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

5. Installing and configuring ROS
6. Navigating the ROS filesystem
7. Creating a ROS package
8. Using Subversion to share and manage your project
9. Building a ROS package
10. 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
11. Setting up an IDE
12. Setting up the PICO simulator