Robot Operating System

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Overview

This page serves as a short introduction to ROS with an example of its implementation on the puppeteer robot system. There is also a short "highlights" section that attempts to direct a new user towards some useful ROS features that might not otherwise be apparent.

Introduction

"ROS is an open-source, meta-operating system for your robot. It provides the services you would expect from an operating system, including hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly-used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management. It also provides tools and libraries for obtaining, building, writing, and running code across multiple computers." [Source: ROS Intro]

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Resources

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Processing Basics

Processing Language Reference

Serial Library

Internal and External Libraries

GUI Library

ProcessingPIC32Communication

Processing comes with a large number of great example projects. Go to File->Examples to see example code specific to making 3D objects, Basics, Libraries and Topics. The Processing website also contains example code and links to other projects that may contain examples.

Highlights

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Implementation

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