TurtleBot

turtlebot

ROS Software Maintainer: Michael Ferguson, Tully Foote, Melonee Wise (Willow Garage)

TurtleBot combines popular off-the-shelf robot components like the iRobot Create and Kinect into an integrated development platform for ROS applications. For more information about hardware, please see http://turtlebot.com.

Contents

  1. TurtleBot
    1. Installation
    2. Getting Started with TurtleBot
      1. Advanced
    3. Support
    4. Library Overview
      1. Basic Configuration
      2. Hardware Drivers and Simulation
      3. High-Level Capabilities

Installation

  1. Install software on the TurtleBot

  2. Install developer toolkit on your workstation

  3. Setup the network between your TurtleBot and workstation

Getting Started with TurtleBot

  1. TurtleBot Bringup

    How to start a TurtleBot

  2. TurtleBot Care and Feeding

    This tutorials explains how to charge and maintain your TurtleBot.

  3. Visualizing TurtleBot Kinect Data
    This tutorial shows you how to look at data coming from the Kinect camera.

turtlebot_teleop

  1. TurtleBot Teleoperation

    How to teleoperate your TurtleBot with a keyboard or a joystick.

  2. TurtleBot Teleoperation Using Interactive Markers

    This tutorial describes how to use rviz interactive markers for teleoping the TurtleBot.

  3. TurtleBot Teleoperation using PS3 controller

    How to teleoperate your TurtleBot with a PS3 controller.

turtlebot_calibration

  1. TurtleBot Odometry and Gyro Calibration

    This will show you how to calibrate or test the calibration of a TurtleBot which is highly recommended when running any navigation based application.

turtlebot_navigation

  1. SLAM Map Building with TurtleBot

    How to generate a map using gmapping

  2. Autonomous Navigation of a Known Map with TurtleBot

    This tutorial describes how to use the TurtleBot with a previously known map.

Advanced

  1. TurtleBot Follower Demo

    How to make your TurtleBot follow whatever's in front of it.

  2. Android Control of the TurtleBot

    How to control your TurtleBot from an Android device.

Support

For questions about software, please use the standard ways to get support for ROS. Please post TurtleBot-related questions to http://answers.ros.org with the tag "turtlebot". We encourage TurtleBot users to also subscribe to the turtlebot-users mailing list, for announcements and discussions among the TurtleBot community.

Use trac to report bugs or request features. [View active tickets]

Library Overview

Basic Configuration

Capability

ROS package/stack

Robot-specific Messages

turtlebot_node

Robot model (URDF)

turtlebot_description

Hardware Drivers and Simulation

Component

ROS package/stack

Actuator Drivers

turtlebot_node

Sensor Drivers

openni_kinect, pointcloud_to_laserscan

Simulation

turtlebot_simulator

High-Level Capabilities

Component

ROS package/stack

Navigation

turtlebot_navigation

Teleop

turtlebot_teleop

Visualization

turtlebot_dashboard

Manipulation

turtlebot_arm

Wiki: Robots/TurtleBot (last edited 2012-02-12 23:40:01 by dking)

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