ROS tutorials:

1. Building a ROS Package

   This tutorial covers the toolchain to build a package.

2. Understanding ROS Nodes

   This tutorial introduces ROS graph concepts and discusses the use of roscore, rosnode, and rosrun commandline tools.

3. Understanding ROS Topics

   This tutorial introduces ROS topics as well as using the rostopic and rqt_plot commandline tools.

4. Understanding ROS Services and Parameters

   This tutorial introduces ROS services, and parameters as well as using the rosservice and rosparam commandline tools.

5. Using rqt_console and roslaunch

   This tutorial introduces ROS using rqt_console and rqt_logger_level for debugging and roslaunch for starting many nodes at once. If you use ROS fuerte or ealier distros where rqt isn't fully available, please see this page with this page that uses old rx based tools.

6. Using rosed to edit files in ROS

   This tutorial shows how to use rosed to make editing easier.

7. Creating a ROS msg and srv

   This tutorial covers how to create and build msg and srv files as well as the rosmsg, rossrv and roscp commandline tools.

8. Writing a Simple Publisher and Subscriber (C++)

   This tutorial covers how to write a publisher and subscriber node in C++.

9. Writing a Simple Publisher and Subscriber (Python)

   This tutorial covers how to write a publisher and subscriber node in python.

10. Examining the Simple Publisher and Subscriber

    This tutorial examines running the simple publisher and subscriber.

11. Writing a Simple Service and Client (C++)

    This tutorial covers how to write a service and client node in C++.

12. Writing a Simple Service and Client (Python)

    This tutorial covers how to write a service and client node in python.

13. Examining the Simple Service and Client

    This tutorial examines running the simple service and client.

14. Recording and playing back data

    This tutorial will teach you how to record data from a running ROS system into a .bag file, and then to play back the data to produce similar behavior in a running system

15. Reading messages from a bag file

    Learn two ways to read messages from desired topics in a bag file, including using the ros_readbagfile script.

16. Getting started with roswtf

    Basic introduction to the roswtf tool.

17. Navigating the ROS wiki

    This tutorial discusses the layout of the ROS wiki (wiki.ros.org) and talks about how to find what you want to know.

18. Where Next?

    This tutorial discusses options for getting to know more about using ROS on real or simulated robots.

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