Note: This tutorial assumes that you have completed the previous tutorials: Gazebo Bringup Guide.
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Explore the Gazebo world

Description: Cruise around in the Gazebo world and use RViz to "see" what's in it.

Keywords: keyop, rviz

Tutorial Level: BEGINNER

Next Tutorial: Make a map and navigate with it

Bringup Turtlebot, see what the robot senses, teleoperate in Gazebo simulation.

Overview

In this tutorial we will use the keyboard teleop tool from the turtlebot_teleop package to drive the TurtleBot around and use RViz to visualise the sensor data.

Preparations

First we need to install the turtlebot_teleop package. Since we will use other apps in the later tutorials, we will install all TurtleBot apps already.

For convenience we will additionally install a set of RViz launchers, which will bring up RViz already configured for our use case.

$ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-turtlebot-apps ros-indigo-turtlebot-rviz-launchers

Make the TurtleBot move

First, bring up the TurtleBot simulation as described in the Gazebo Bringup Guide.

Next, in a second terminal* run the keyboard teleop tool.

$ roslaunch turtlebot_teleop keyboard_teleop.launch

For TurtleBot 2 you can also use the kobuki_keyop tool:

$ roslaunch kobuki_keyop keyop.launch

If you prefer other methods to move the robot, be sure to use geometry_msgs/Twist topic by the name /mobile_base/commands/velocity.

See what the robot sees

Use RViz to visualise various sensory information. In a new terminal* execute:

$ roslaunch turtlebot_rviz_launchers view_robot.launch

RViz won't show much at first, since the Gazebo world is empty. So, let's add some objects to it!

turtlebot_gazebo_rviz.png

Notes

* If your terminals are not already pre-configured with the ROS environment variables, you need to set them in each new terminal you open. Just execute the below command *before* you execute any other ROS commands.

$ source /opt/ros/indigo/setup.bash

What Next?

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