ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

Running Chefbot ROS driver nodes

The following is the block diagram of the connection. Make sure that you are all set with connecting the devices. Make sure you have connected all sensors and the Launchpad board to your PC before running the driver.

Figure 20: Block diagram of the Chefbot

If we want to launch all driver nodes of the robot, you can simply do it using the following command. Don't forget to change the serial port permission.

    $ roslaunch chefbot_bringup robot_standalone.launch

If everything working fine, you will get the following ROS topics:

Figure 21: The Chefbot driver topics

You can also visualize the ROS computational graph ...