Hi Sebastian, You'll find that Player is already available in a ROS package. See http://www.ros.org/wiki/player There is an example of integration for the erratic at http://www.ros.org/wiki/erratic_player Tully On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Aslund wrote: > Hey everyone > > I am starting a project aiming at creating a complete coverage path > planning algorithm on a mobile robot, which I had previous experience with. > Here I developed and implemented a localization algorithm using Player only, > but the increased complexity involved in coverage path planning have made me > interest in using ROS. > While the tutorials gives an excellent overview, then I have not totally > figured out how to add my external Player installation into ROS so I can > create Nodes that takes advantages of the Player libraries. > It is properly a simple task, but I hope someone can take the time to > explain how I solve my problem. > I am using Player 3.0.2 with the newest version from SVN and the newest > version of ROS from the repository on Ubuntu 10.10. The package have I > created using roscreate-pkg with the basic dependencies described in the > tutorial. > > Regards > > Sebastian Aslund > > Master Student in Robotics > University of Southern Denmark > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > -- Tully Foote Systems Engineer Willow Garage, Inc. tfoote@willowgarage.com (650) 475-2827