ROS tutorials

First, you will need to do the basic ROS tutorials. We have a few twists on it for you to follow:

Important notes:

• We are using the catkin build system, not rosbuild
• We are using ROS Indigo, not Kinetic

catkin_make vs. catkin

There are two tools for using catkin: catkin_make and catkin (aka catkin tools). The ROS tutorials assume you use catkin_make, but we recommend using catkin. With catkin, it is easier to visualize concurrent builds, and, best of all, you do not have to be in the root directory of your workspace to run catkin build (you do if you use catkin_make).

With this in mind, do Tutorials 2-18 with the following tweaks:

• Tutorial 3: Instead of running this command:

  - catkin_create_pkg beginner_tutorials std_msgs rospy roscpp
  

  Run this:

  + catkin create pkg beginner_tutorials --catkin-deps roscpp rospy std_msgs
  

  And from now on, never run this:

  - catkin_make
  

  Instead, whenever you see catkin_make, run this instead:

  + catkin build
  

• Tutorial 4: Again, remember to replace catkin_make with catkin build

• Tutorial 10: Replace catkin_make install with catkin build --install

• Tutorial 11: Replace catkin_make with catkin build

• Tutorial 12: Replace catkin_make with catkin build

• Tutorial 14: Replace catkin_make with catkin build

• Tutorial 15: Replace catkin_make with catkin build