Go Chase It

Ball chaser mobile robot using ROS and Gazebo.

This repo consists of two packages:

• my_robot package defines the simulation world and the robot.
• ball_chaser package contains the nodes responsible for controlling the robot.

Prerequisites

• ROS installed on Linux
• Cmake
• gcc/g++ compiler

Build

• Create and build a catkin workspace. If you have catkin_ws, skip to the next step.

  $ mkdir -p ~/catkin_ws/src
  $ cd /carkin_ws/src
  $ catkin_init_workspace
  $ cd /catkin_ws/
  $ catkin_make
  

• Clone the repository to your source folder.

  $ cd /catkin_ws/src
  $ git clone https://github.com/yabdulra/Go-Chase-It.git
  $ cd ..
  $ catkin_make
  

Launch

• Launch the simulation world

  $ source devel/setup.bash
  $ roslaunch my_robot world.launch
  

• In a new terminal, launch the ball_chaser package.

  $ source devel/setup.bash
  $ roslaunch ball_chaser ball_chaser.launch
  

Now that everything is set, pickup the white ball and place it within the field of view of the robot. The robot will follow the white ball.

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