Robot Operating System – turtlesim

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Monday, March 22nd, 2010

The Robot Operating System is a Free and Open Source software bundle of amazing libraries that can be used with your robot. There are oodles of libraries– OpenCV, Wiimote, iRobotCreate (!!! WOOT), NAO robots… and many more.

Installing the ROS has been an interesting process for me. I started with my Mac, which didn’t work (at first), then went to my Ubuntu 7 machine, killed it… Tried again on my Mac, followed everything down to the error that “file is not of required architecture) … Then I had Ubuntu 9 installed, installed ROS… posted a question about a “bug” (more of a misunderstanding on my end ) on the mailing list… and BAM! IT WORKS!

So, all in all:

• Haven’t made ROS work on a Mac yet
• You need to run roscore to initialize the ROS nodes
• This is awesome.

More later!

Posted in: Programming, Projects, Robot.
Tags: Mac, Robot Operating System, ROS, roscore, turtlesim, Ubuntu

4 Responses to “Robot Operating System – turtlesim”

1. Muhammad Morgan Says:
   May 20th, 2010 at 1:56 PM

   For me, the best operating system is Linux because it rarely hangs.:”;

2. Ariana Coleman Says:
   July 27th, 2010 at 4:17 AM

   operating systems can either make or break your system that is why it is wise to choose a vey stable one.`-,

3. Magnesium Ascorbate : Says:
   October 24th, 2010 at 4:05 PM

   Linux is still the best when it comes to stability and Windows for ergonomics.,”

4. Kids Pools Says:
   December 20th, 2010 at 3:32 PM

   there are many different operating systems but of course i would still prefer to use linux for stability ,*.

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