Installation Instructions

iClebo Kobuki is a mobile research robot from Yujin Robot. This instruction describes how to install Kobuki ros packages and get you ready to play with Kobuki. It assumes that you have already gotten ROS infrastructure and use Ubuntu Precise 12.04LTS. If ROS is not installed yet, please check out ROS installation before this. If you are running with different Operating system, ...good luck :P.

Install Kobuki

• Kobuki debs

> sudo apt-get install ros-$ROS_DISTRO-kobuki ros-$ROS_DISTRO-kobuki-core

Together with kobuki packages, Ecl and Yujin OCS dependencies will be installed.

Set udev Rule

Copy across a udev rule for /dev/kobuki port and add your user to the dialout group (you may need to log out and log back in). See kobuki_ftdi for more details.

rosrun kobuki_ftdi create_udev_rules

The /dev/kobuki port after replugging the kobuki USB cable.

Keyboard Teleoperation

Ready to rock! With all the software you have installed so far, you should be able to teleoperate your kobuki around with your keyboard!

# This launches the minimal operation configuration
> roslaunch kobuki_node minimal.launch
# This launches the keyboard teloperation node
# Probably you want to do this in another terminal
> roslaunch kobuki_keyop keyop.launch

Troubleshooting

If you get more troubles or need further help, please join our kobuki user mailing list and post an issue for us!

• kobuki-users@yujinrobot.com

Next up

Now, that your ready to rock, let us take a closer look on Kobuki.