robocup_rescue

• Version Control: svn https://svn.uni-koblenz.de/rosrescue/rosrescue/30_prog

Documentation

The goal of this project is to provide a Standard Robotic Software Architecture for RoboCup Rescue based on ROS.

Current Situation & Problem

• Robotic software systems for autonomy are difficult to build
• Code sharing not possible due to different frameworks

• No standard platform to start from in RoboCup Rescue

• Much effort to re-invent the same solutions
• Slow progress in the league

Proposed Solution

• Provide an open source standard software solution based on ROS
• Enable the teams to adopt quickly to the world class performance level
• Make good solutions reusable
• Enable sharing of good solutions
• Enable the teams to focus on one certain aspect
• Enable faster progress of capabilities in the league

Installation

1. The following command will download and install rosinstall, a tool to check out source code from multiple version control repositories.

   • sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
     sudo easy_install -U rosinstall

2. Checkout the packages from rosrescue and other external repositories to a clean workspace using rosinstall:

   • rosinstall ~/rosrescue /opt/ros/electric 

During the following checkout, you will be asked to enter the username and password for the rosrescue SVN (guest/guest). You can also update all repositories by running the command below again.

• rosinstall ~/rosrescue /opt/ros/electric 'http://www.ros.org/wiki/robocup_rescue?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=rosrescue.rosinstall'

• again.
• Setup your ROS enviroment and add the checked out folders to the ROS_PACKAGE_PATH:

  • source ~/rosrescue/setup.bash

• Build all packages:

  • rosmake rosrescue

  • The dependencies might not set correctly yet. You may have to build the directories manually (rosmake).

  • Ignore the vrmagic_camera stuff. It is not really required.

  • You must read the file INSTALL in the ros-gui folder. There are issues with shiboken with Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10.

• Launch one or more of the following demo examples:

  • roslaunch rosrescue pioneer_demo.launch
    roslaunch rosrescue operator_demo.launch

Signs used in this page

• Action items that need to be taken.

• Major issues that need to be resolved