Note: This tutorial assumes that you have completed the previous tutorials: Installation.
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Post-Installation Setup

Description: Customised configuration for your robot setup.

Tutorial Level: BEGINNER

Next Tutorial: Workstation Installation

Network Time Protocol

Clock synchronization is important for ROS. Chrony has been found to be the best ntp client over lossy wireless. In case of robot behaves strange when messages are sent from PC application(like rviz, rqt, or ros node running in PC), you need clock synchronization.

  1. Install Chrony
    • sudo apt-get install chrony
  2. manually sync NTP
    • sudo ntpdate ntp.ubuntu.com

Special Cases

  • Kobuki Base - instructions for transferring a udev rule to conveniently work with the Kobuki.

  • Create Base - instructions for modifying the turtlebot software to work with the Create.

  • Asus Setup - instructions for modifying the turtlebot software to work with the Asus Xtion Pro.

  • Netbook Battery Setup - if the turtlebot software isn't correctly finding your battery.

What Next?

Wiki: turtlebot/Tutorials/groovy/Post-Installation Setup (last edited 2013-02-09 07:23:20 by DanielStonier)