[ros-users] erratic_robot stack release announcement

[John Hsu]

nice work!  thanks.
I'll remove erratic_gazebo which is definitely outdated by now, does anyone
still depend on it?
John


On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Antons Rebguns <anton at email.arizona.edu>wrote:

> 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.
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