ROS indigo installation and tutorial or Virtual Machine setup
Programming for the NASA Swarmathon competition will be done with ROS Indigo software
on the Ubuntu platform.
You can install it on your computer or use the application through a Virtual Machine installed
on your computer which accesses Cabrillo's server.
Either way the journey begins by downloading software.
To put ROS Indigo on your computer go to:
http://wiki.ros.org/indigo/Installation
Ubuntu
read and install
Begin exploring ROS basics with the tutorial: http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials
If you are using a school computer in the CIS install X2Go on your user drive under D:
so you can use it anytime this semester without reinstalling every time
To use Cabrillo's server running X2Go and ROS Indigo through a Virtual Machine
on your computer (or one in the STEM center) with MS Windows install X2Go Client:
http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:installation:x2goclient
Download X2Go for MS Windows
x2goclient-4.0.5.0-2015.07.31-setup.exe
save and install
Once X2Go is installed, open it and pick:
Robot Server, click anywhere on the bubble with the seal pup and enter in the prompts:
Host: robot.cis.cabrillo.edu
Login: UN
Password:
session type: XFCE
Now set-up the X2Go terminal:
App Menu
Other
Eclipse
From terminal enter: ros
hit tab twice
Begin exploring ROS basics with the tutorial: http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials