Setting up to control a real TurtleBot
The TurtleBot system consists of the TurtleBot base and its netbook that rides along with the TurtleBot and a separate remote computer that is used to control the robot. The netbook and computer communicate wirelessly once a network connection is established. This section describes the setup of the system, including the network.
A brief overview of the steps to set up and test the TurtleBot are as follows:
- Set up the netbook with Ubuntu 14.04 and ROS Indigo, and then load the TurtleBot software packages.
- Set up the remote computer with similar software.
- Test the TurtleBot in the standalone mode to assure proper operation.
- Create the network of computers, being careful to define the TurtleBot netbook as the ROS Master to the remote computer.
- Test the TurtleBot by communicating with commands wirelessly from the remote computer to the netbook of the TurtleBot.
The ROS wiki describes the installation of the ROS software for the TurtleBot netbook at:
