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For our project we use ROS Kinetic Kame. ROS is a software framework for robots based on publisher-subscriber communication. ROS Kinetic Kame is targeted at the Ubuntu 16.04 (Why we use ROS Kinetic Kame and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS klick here > this will be a link soon)

In this section you can get to know how:

  1. How to install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
  2. How to install ROS Kinetic Kame
  3. Create workspace
  4. Get a github.com account

1. How to install Ubunut 16.04 LTS

In order to contribute to our project you will need a working Ubuntu platform. You can either install Ubuntu 16.04 on your PC as your main-operating system, install it on a second partition or install it on an USB-Stick (full Ubuntu installation) and boot from the stick.

Go to Ubuntu Download (from ubuntu.com) and click on "Download Ubuntu 16.04 LTS", you can skip the contribution page (Ubuntu is for free!). Depending on preferred installation method install Ubuntu (default settings work fine in most cases).

2. How to install ROS

Open Ubuntu install of ROS Kinetic page and follow the installation instructions. Do the Desktop-Full Install (step 1.4).

3. Create workspace

To set up the proper environment open the Installing and Configuring Your ROS Environment tutorial and follow the steps creating a catkin workspace. This is the place all packages go to.

The ROS Tutorial will come in quite handy.

In order to run our project you need to install the following packages.

Once you installed and prepared everything you need to "clone" the repository. This will download the source code of our project to your computer. How to do this and in order to see how to run everything you can go on with the Workflow section.