Lab Guide

Vim and Git tutorials

Visual Studio Code

If you don’t have any particular IDE that you prefer, Visual Studio Code is a quite powerful tool when combined with SSH FS extension. Visual Studio Code is already installed on the lab machines.

A more detailed guide to setup the development environment could be found in here.

ROS Installation

Install ROS Melodic (see http://wiki.ros.org/melodic/Installation)

Only available on Ubuntu Artful (17.10), Bionic (18.04), Debian Stretch, and Arch Linux distributions. If you need to install ROS locally, please see: Install ROS on my laptop

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver 'hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80' --recv-key C1CF6E31E6BADE8868B172B4F42ED6FBAB17C654
sudo apt update
sudo apt install ros-melodic-desktop
sudo rosdep init
rosdep update
sudo apt install python-rosinstall python-rosinstall-generator python-wstool build-essential

Create a catkin workspace (assuming ROS Melodic is installed)

source /opt/ros/melodic/setup.bash
mkdir -p ~/catkin_ws/src
cd ~/catkin_ws/
catkin_make
echo "source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Turning On/Off

Turning on TX2

Plugging in Car Battery

Turning on ESC

When You Are Done

Charging Car Battery

Car Work Stand