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TurtleBot Bringup
Description: How to start the TurtleBot software.Tutorial Level: BEGINNER
Next Tutorial: TurtleBot Care and Feeding
Turtlebot Bringup
Close the lid of your TurtleBot laptop, place it on the TurtleBot and connect the USB cables. Press the power button for your mobile base. If you have a Create, the power button is on the top left, hidden behind the edge of the lowest deck and a green light will turn on. If you have a Kobuki, the power button is a switch on the left hand side and it will chirp and flash led's excitedly as soon as you turn it on.
Firstly ssh into your TurtleBot computer from your workstation computer (need more help about ssh) .
To ssh in to a TurtleBot from a workstation computer:
determine the IP_OF_TURTLEBOT by using ifconfig (Need more help)
To determine a computer's IP address and network interface in linux:
ifconfig
You will see something like:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:6658055 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6658055 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:587372914 (587.3 MB) TX bytes:587372914 (587.3 MB) wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 48:5d:60:75:58:90 inet addr:10.0.129.17 Bcast:10.0.129.255 Mask:255.255.254.0 inet6 addr: fe80::4a5d:60ff:fe75:5890/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:101983 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:37244 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:49326141 (49.3 MB) TX bytes:7588044 (7.5 MB)the network interface for the wireless card is wlan1
the IP address of the computer is 10.0.129.17
use ssh to connect to the TurtleBot
ssh turtlebot@IP_OF_TURTLEBOT
The instructions then differ depending on whether you have a prepared usb derived release, from debs, or from source.
Live USB Installation Instructions
This is pending information/testing of the live usb release. |
Deb Installation Instructions
> source /opt/ros/groovy/setup.bash > roslaunch turtlebot_bringup minimal.launch
If you have overlaid your own rosbuild environment on top of the installed debs, use that setup.bash instead.
Source Installation Instructions
> source ~/turtlebot-rosbuild/setup.bash > roslaunch turtlebot_bringup minimal.launch
Initial Bringup
If your turtlebot came with a netbook or a USB drive installer, the turtlebot software may already be running on the turtlebot netbook. You can check by running rosnode list on the netbook. If you get a list of nodes (instead of an error) ROS is already running. Note that ROS will only start if the netbook is connected to the network - if ROS is not running check this first.
Otherwise, you may see something like this:
> rosnode list ERROR: Unable to communicate with master!
If this is the case you can manually start the turtlebot ROS nodes from a terminal on the netbook.
> roslaunch turtlebot_bringup minimal.launch
If you have a Turtlebot based on the iRobot Create base, the following environment variables should be set before executing the minimal.launch command.
> export TURTLEBOT_BASE=create > export TURTLEBOT_STACKS=circles > export TURTLEBOT_3D_SENSOR=kinect > roslaunch turtlebot_bringup minimal.launch
Workstation Bringup
Preparation
This assumes you have finished the workstation install and also the network configuration that enables turtlebot and workstation to communicate.
Dashboard
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To see what is happening on the TurtleBot please keep the turtlebot_dashboard up as much as possible when running the robot.
If you have a Turtlebot 2 based on the Kobuki base you should launch the Kobuki dashboard.
> rqt -s kobuki_dashboard
Otherwise, if you have a Turtlebot based on the iRobot Create base, the following environment variables should be set.
> export TURTLEBOT_BASE=create > export TURTLEBOT_STACKS=circles > export TURTLEBOT_3D_SENSOR=kinect
And the following command to launch the Create dashboard.
> roslaunch turtlebot_dashboard turtlebot_dashboard.launch
You should see the TurtleBot dashboard appear.
If buttons remain grey, your ROS_MASTER_URI or ROS_IP are not set, see above.
What Next?
TurtleBot Care and Feeding or return to TurtleBot main page.
