Configuring your ROS development environment

In this section, we will guide you on how to install and configure the tools that you will need to work comfortably with ROS on your laptop. In short, these are the steps you need to complete before starting the practical exercises in this chapter:

1. Make sure that your computer runs Ubuntu 16.04 or Ubuntu 18.04. Both are the LTS releases that have the most extensive collection of ROS packages at the time of writing this book.
2. Install and set up ROS on your laptop. You will also be provided with the guidelines to install ROS in the Raspberry Pi, the CPU of the GoPiGO3 robot. However, in part 2 of the book, you will only need your laptop, since we will be dealing with a virtual model of the robot. The inclusion of the physical robot is left for part 3 of the book.
3. For the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) we will use RoboWare Studio...