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Prior Reading
Installation Instructions
This instruction describes how to install Kobuki ros packages and get you ready to play with Kobuki. It assumes that you have already gotten ROS infrastructure and use Ubuntu Xenial 16.04LTS. If ROS is not installed yet, please check out ROS installation before this.
Install Kobuki
> sudo apt-get install ros-$ROS_DISTRO-kobuki ros-$ROS_DISTRO-kobuki-core
Dialout Group
If not already in the dialout group:
$ sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER
and then log out, log back in again.
Set Udev Rule
$ rosrun kobuki_ftdi create_udev_rules
Reinsert the Kobuki's USB cable into your laptop/pc/... You should now find it show up at /dev/kobuki.
Keyboard Teleoperation
Ready to rock! With all the software you have installed so far, you should be able to teleoperate your kobuki around with your keyboard!
# In a first shell $ . /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash $ roslaunch kobuki_node minimal.launch --screen # In a second shell $ . /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash $ roslaunch kobuki_keyop keyop.launch --screen
In the following tutorials it will be assumed that you have already sourced setup.bash appropriately.
Next up
Now, that your ready to rock, let us take a closer look on Kobuki.