The ROS Filesystem is one of the strangest concepts to grasp when starting to develop projects in ROS, but with time and patience, the reader will easily become familiar with it and realize its value for managing projects and its dependencies. The main goal of the ROS Filesystem is to centralize the build process of a project, while at the same time provide enough flexibility and tooling to decentralize its dependencies.
Similar to an operating system, an ROS program is divided into folders, and these folders have files that describe their functionalities:
- Packages: Packages form the atomic level of ...
