Its a sandbox project to play around with turtlesim. One can define trajectories in C++ or python and run the node to see the turtle move. The nodes are written in C++ and python named motion_publisher and motion_publisher.py respectively. Its a side learning project which was inspired by the ROS for beginners course project on Udemy.
- In order to install this package, one must have the catkin workspace already created. If not created, follow the tutorial http://wiki.ros.org/catkin/Tutorials/create_a_workspace
- Change directory to the source folder in catkin workspace
$ cd catkin_ws/src
- Clone the repository in this directory.
- Go back to the catkin workspace and build.
$ cd catkin_ws
$ catkin_make
If you choose to run the C++ node then go ahead with this command
$ rosrun turtlesim_circle_motion motion_publisher
For python,
$ rosrun turtlesim_circle_motion motion_publisher.py