Hi Jason,
Sounds like a fun assignment. You definitely don't need to be a CS
major to use ROS, you can pick up the coding required by experience.
Start here:
http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/StartGuide. The tutorials are
very good and do not require any robot hardware to work through.
Good Luck,
Pat
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:59 AM, <
jabyers@clemson.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
> My name is Jason Byers and I am an Electrical Engineering student at
> Clemson University. I am doing an undergraduate assignment in which my
> professor wants me to download ROS and figure out how to use it and it's
> SLAM code to build a map of a building and run one of the lab robots
> through this building. However, being an electrical engineering student
> versus a computer engineering student, I am not very good at coding. I was
> wondering if someone could point me towards a tutorial or give me advice
> as to how to at least start this task? I have downloaded ROS, but am not
> really sure as to how I am supposed to use it or even get to it.
> Thanks for any help,
> Jason Byers
>
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