[ros-users] erratic_robot stack release announcement

[Antons Rebguns]

Hello folks,

I would like to announce the release of erratic_robot stack. It
replaces the erratic_robot stack that used to live in wg-ros-pkg
repository and was unmaintained for quite some time. For ease of
deployment it's available as both svn download from ua-ros-pkg
repository [1] and as a debian package from ROS Ubuntu repository. ROS
C turtle users can install the stack and all its dependencies by
simply issuing the following command in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install ros-cturtle-erratic-robot

This stack contains packages that are used to interface with Videre
Erratic mobile robot. These include the hardware interface driver,
URDF description, 3D meshes, navigation stack configuration and launch
files and keyboard teleoperation node. Please see stack wiki pages [2]
for additional information and documentation.

Thanks,
Anton

[1] http://code.google.com/p/ua-ros-pkg/wiki/DeveloperInstall
[2] http://www.ros.org/wiki/erratic_robot

PS

To test that everything works properly you can run a SLAM navigation
demo in simulation by executing the following command in the terminal:

roslaunch erratic_navigation_apps demo_2dnav_slam.launch

This should bring up a Gazebo simulator with erratic robot in Willow
Garage office world. To drive the robot around we need to run the
teleoperation node in another terminal window:

rosrun erratic_teleop erratic_keyboard_teleop

Make sure that this terminal window has focus and press W to go
forward, S to go backward, A to go left and D to go right. If
everything went smoothly the robot should move around.