ROS Reading Materials
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ROS Wiki
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- `ROS Tutorials main website <http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials>`_

- `rospy tutorials main website <http://wiki.ros.org/rospy_tutorials>`_


ROS Conventions
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- `REP 103 Standard Units of Measure and Coordinate Conventions 
  <https://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0103.html>`_ (please read, the most important one)

- `REP 105 Coordinate Frames for Mobile Platforms <https://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0105.html>`_

- `REP 144 ROS Package Naming <https://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0144.html>`_


ROS Reading Guideline
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In the following we list the most important tutorials. (Read them in order.)

#. `Installing and Configuring Your ROS Environment 
   <http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/InstallingandConfiguringROSEnvironment>`_

#. `Creating a ROS Package 
   <http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/CreatingPackage>`_

#. `Understanding ROS Nodes 
   <http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/UnderstandingNodes>`_

#. `Understanding ROS Topics 
   <http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/UnderstandingTopics>`_

#. `Writing a Simple Publisher and Subscriber (Python) 
   <http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/WritingPublisherSubscriber%28python%29>`_

Some important concepts.

- `ROS Core <http://wiki.ros.org/roscore>`_ and `ROS Master <http://wiki.ros.org/Master>`_

- `ROS Message <http://wiki.ros.org/action/fullsearch/Messages>`_

- `ROS Launch <http://wiki.ros.org/roslaunch>`_ and 
  `Command Line Tools <http://wiki.ros.org/roslaunch/Commandline%20Tools>`_

- `Graph Resource Names <http://wiki.ros.org/Names>`_

Command line tools for debugging.

- `Command line tools main page <http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/CommandLineTools>`_

- `rosnode <http://wiki.ros.org/rosnode>`_

- `rostopic <http://wiki.ros.org/rostopic>`_

- `rqt_graph <http://wiki.ros.org/rqt_graph>`_