Setup ROS Monitoring Station - Interbotix/turtlebot2i GitHub Wiki

Setup a separate PC on the network to act as a dedicated monitoring station.

Requirements

Ubuntu 16.04+ w/ ROS Kinetic

Follow Build Instructions in this wiki:

Full-Build-Instructions

Remote view the robot

• Bringup the robot via VNC or SSH connection
• Configure your remote computer to communicate with ROS on the robot

cd ~/turtlebot2i/

source devel/setup.bash

Replace my.robot.address with the hostname of your robot in the following command:

export ROS_MASTER_URI=http://my.robot.address:11311

roslaunch turtlebot2i_bringup remote_view.launch

Relevant Information

• http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/NetworkSetup
• http://wiki.ros.org/turtlebot/Tutorials/indigo/Network%20Configuration