udacity-tutorial-ros

A simple tutorial of ROS made by Udacity

How to launch the simulation

Make sure you have all the required ROS packages installed, and that this package is in your ROS workspace (assumed ot be ~/catkin_ws.)

cd ~/catkin_ws
# check if need to install required ROS packages
rosdep check --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro=$ROS_DISTRO
# then install with following command or manually use `apt-get install`
rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro=kinetic -y

If you have not built your workspace do it now (make sure you are inside the workspace root directory):

catkin build # or catkin_make

Once the simple_arm package has been built, you can launch the simulation environment using:

source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash
roslaunch simple_arm robot_spawn.launch