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ROS

• Audience: developers
• Level: intermediate

openag_brain is written on top of ROS (Robot Operating System).

These pages contain useful notes and design patterns for ROS. For details specific to openag_brain, see openag_brain. For up-to-date details on ROS, see the ROS Wiki.

Design Patterns

• Polling node design pattern
• Logging from nodes

About ROS

• Launch files
• Build tooling
• Releasing packages
• Dependencies
• msgs
• ROS and libboost

Notes on Packages We Use

• rosserial

ROS and Python

Currently, ROS indigo only supports Python 2, so openag_brain is written in Python 2.

ROS on Single-Board Computers

• Installing on Raspberry Pi
  • We currently only support Raspberry Pi for but are exploring support for other platforms.
• Installing on Beaglebone
• Note that ARM Ubuntu distros have binary packages for roscore and ros_comm available, as well as some dependencies.

See Also

• /openag_brain/
• /Docker/