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Using interactive markers with rosjs
Description: This tutorial describes using interactive markers in wvizTutorial Level:
Installation
Prerequesites
The Interactive Marker Tutorials depends on several ROS packages. Please install the visualization-tutorials developer stacks:
sudo apt-get install ros-electric-visualization-tutorials sudo apt-get install ros-electric-vision-opencv
or refer to the instruction on electric/Installation.
Installation from source code
To use the Interactive Marker Tutorial in wviz, you will need the trunk of the remote_lab Stack:[[remote_lab]] and some additional packages such as rosbridge.
The following rosinstall file will get everything for you:
- svn: local-name: remote_lab uri: 'https://bosch-ros-pkg.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/bosch-ros-pkg/trunk/stacks/remote_lab' - svn: local-name: rosbridge uri: 'http://brown-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/distribution/brown_remotelab/rosbridge'
Note: To use the rosinstall file, create a new directory (e.g. interactive_marker_tutorial), create a file named .rosinstall in this folder and paste the above text into it, go to the directory in a terminal and type
rosinstall . /opt/ros/electric source ./setup.sh rosmake rosjs_tutorials
Please refer to the rosinstall page for more details.