Hi David,

I posted a new walk-through guide for the Aldebaran Nao, aimed at students or researchers who have a Nao robot but are unfamiliar with Linux or ROS.

http://www.ros.org/wiki/nao/Tutorials/Getting-Started

Corrections and suggestions are appreciated.

Great, thanks a lot for the exhaustive tutorial! With NaoQI 1.12.3 I use the separate Python SDK, and with that I don't need to touch any LD_LIBRARY_PATH for starting the nodes (even works with 64 bit Ubuntu).

If extracted to ~/naoqi/pynaoqi-python-2.7-naoqi-1.12.3, then I only need to add that path to my PYTHONPATH, no LD_LIBRARY_PATH required.

After starting the launch files one by one, it's probably worth noting the "all in one" teleop_nao_sim.launch in nao_remote as well.

Best regards,
Armin

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Armin Hornung
Humanoid Robots Lab, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Contact: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~hornunga