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ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots
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ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

by Anil Mahtani, Luis Sanchez, Enrique Fernandez, Aaron Martinez, Lentin Joseph
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
1396 pages
42h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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Step 8 – Building controller

After completing the CMakeLists.txt, we can build our controller using the catkin_make command. After building, check that the controller is configured as a plugin using rospack command, as given in the following:

$ rospack plugins --attrib=plugin pr2_controller_interface

If everything has been performed correctly, the output may look like the following:

Figure 3: List of controllers in the system
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