ROS Reading Materials

ROS Wiki

• ROS Tutorials main website

• rospy tutorials main website

ROS Conventions

• REP 103 Standard Units of Measure and Coordinate Conventions (please read, the most important one)

• REP 105 Coordinate Frames for Mobile Platforms

• REP 144 ROS Package Naming

ROS Reading Guideline

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

1. Installing and Configuring Your ROS Environment

2. Creating a ROS Package

3. Understanding ROS Nodes

4. Understanding ROS Topics

5. Writing a Simple Publisher and Subscriber (Python)

Some important concepts.

• ROS Core and ROS Master

• ROS Message

• ROS Launch and Command Line Tools

• Graph Resource Names

Command line tools for debugging.

• Command line tools main page

• rosnode

• rostopic

• rqt_graph