Part 1: ROS Set-Up and moving the Kobuki
This article will detail the necessary steps required to set up the Kobuki robot built by Yujin Robot a South Korean robotics company. Henceforth referred to as just Kobuki. The Kobuki is a great way for beginners to get their hands dirty without having to deal with much of the cumbersome low level drivers. The Kobuki is also known as Turtlebot 2.
To begin, let’s go through the set-up procedure for Kobuki. In order to control the Kobuki, a Computer is needed to run Ubuntu distribution of Linux together with the meta-operating system ROS (Robotic Operating Software). In this setup we are using Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS (Bionic Beaver). You can check your version of Ubuntu by running the command below in your terminal window.
lsb_release -a The ROS version that we will be using is ROS melodic. Similarly you can check your ROS version by running the following command in the terminal window.
rosversion -d
To install ROS Melodic on your Ubuntu 18.04.3 use the link below. This is also a good opportunity to get used to the ROS wiki. It is a great resource for your robotic endeavours.
