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Create your first action
Description: In this tutorial you will create an action and build a simple NDDL simulator for testing. This makes it easy to see how things work in the executive without getting into more complicated integration.Tutorial Level: INTERMEDIATE
Contents
Create a HandyBot package
You will be building up an example throughout these tutorials for the HandyBot. To get started, create a package using trexcreate:
trexcreate handybot roscd handybot rosmake
If all is well, running:
trexfind demo.cfg
will produce something like:
/u/mcgann/ros/ros-pkg/trex_tutorials/handybot/cfg/demo.cfg
Create an action to move HandyBot around the room
Implement a simple simulator
Create a test executive configuration
Execute the test
Tweak the simulation