Saturday 22 January 2011

ROS, TURTLES AND ROSVERSION

COMMAND LINE CHECK FOR ROS VERSION

A command line to check ROS version installed,


......1.4.9 makes it a diamondback release 

TURTLE REFERENCE 

All ROS distributions have a Turtle reference. Box Turtle, C Turtle, Diamondback .....





The reasons cited for such are;

  • LOGO Turtle, probably the simplest GUI based simulations for navigation. ROS also has a package very similar to the LOGO Turtle and it is often recommended as a tutorial for newbies.


REFERENCES
(1) ROS Distributions
(2) I thank Gonçalo Cabrita and Ken Conley at ros-users@code.ros.org