ros

Boston Didi Challenge matters pertaining to Robot Operating System (ROS)

Installation

According to the Submission section for the Rules at https://challenge.udacity.com/:

Solution must run in the provided ROS framework (Ubuntu 14.04, ROS Indigo)

If you are running a Linux host, please be sure to use Ubuntu 14.04.

For instructions on installing ROS using Docker, please click here (Note: competition requires ROS Indigo, which is not compatible with Ubuntu 16.04).

ROS bag

Click here for an overview of a ROS bag.

Click here to look at the Jupyter notebook to get started with exploring the rosbag data from Udacity.

ROS quick tutorial

Click here for a quick tutorial of ROS.

1. create the ros workspace in the dir

$ catkin_make

2. create two ros package

$ cd src
$ catkin_create_pkg detector std_msgs rospy roscpp
$ catkin_create_pkg tracker std_msgs rospy roscpp

ROS Nodes

[detector]

use this command to run before ros play didi test bag

$ rosrun detector pipeline.py

[tracker]