youbot_stack

Collection of packages to run the youbot arm in simulation and in hardware for course COMPGX01

Dependencies: sudo apt install ros-kinetic-controller-manager ros-kinetic-joint-state-controller ros-kinetic-effort-controllers ros-kinetic-gazebo-ros-control

Build:

1. Clone repo into catkin workspace (eg. catkin_ws/src)
2. In the youbot_stack directory, run git submodule update --init
3. In the root of the workspace (e.g. ~/catkin_ws) run catkin_make
4. Run source devel/setup.bash

To run the simulator:

1. run roslaunch youbot_simulator youbot_sim.launch gui:=true The gui true tag brings up the gazebo client if you don't want the gazebo client put false.