Robot Operating System¶

Introduction¶

Robot Operating System, known as ROS for short, can be run on Raspberry Pis and Nvidia Jetsons in order to control complex mechanical systems.

To help introduce students to ROS, the Design Lab has a quickstart guide for ROS that steps through installation and running simple examples. Find it below!

export:Software files/ROS2 on Raspberry Pi/ROS2 RPi Instructions.docx

ROS2 RPi Instructions Table of Contents¶

• Initial Boot
• Setting up ROS2 workspace
• Publishing to a ROS2 Topic
• Running the Webcam
• Running Turtlesim

For the webcam example here in ROS, find the required files below.

export:Software files/ROS2 on Raspberry Pi/ROS2-RPi-WebCam-Test-Code.zip