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Introduction to ROS

Learning objective:

After completion of exercise 1 you should know the ROS components and concepts

• Master,
• Node,
• Message,
• Topic,
• Service

and how the organization of ROS on a filesystem level in packages works using the catkin build system.

Sections of this Exercise

1. What is ROS?
2. ROS Philosophy
3. ROS Concepts
   1. Computation Graph Level
   2. Filesystem Level
   3. Community Level
4. First Steps with ROS
   1. ROS Workspace
   2. ROS Master
   3. Nodes
   4. Topics
   5. Services
   6. Messages
   7. ROS CLI commands
   8. Catkin Workspace
5. Building a Package
6. Implementing a Node

What is ROS?

ROS Philosophy

ROS Concepts

Computation Graph Level

Filesystem Level

Community Level

First Steps with ROS

ROS Workspace

ROS Master

Nodes

Topics

Services

Messages

ROS command-line interface commands

Catkin Workspace

Building a Package

Implementing a Node