ROS tutorial #1: Introduction, Installing ROS, and running the Turtlebot simulator.

ROS (Robot Operating System) is a popular software library for robotics programming. It is free, open-source, and used by robotics researchers and companies around the world. This video introduces ROS and describes its advantages and disadvantages. It also walks through installing ROS Indigo on Ubuntu 14.04, installing the Turtlebot software, and running the Turtlebot simulation in Gazebo.

[David-ztyl]

0:00 Intro
1:29 What is ROS?
3:10 Advantages and Disadvantages of ROS
6:48 About these tutorials
8:45 Prerequisites
10:41 Installation and Setup Walkthrough
17:09 Turtlebot Simulator

[HarkaneAmineAmineFrei]

Hi peeps, for those having this error when running turtlebot "" Invalid <arg> tag: environment variable 'TURTLEBOT_GAZEBO_WORLD_FILE' is not set.

Arg xml is <arg default="$(env TURTLEBOT_GAZEBO_WORLD_FILE)" name="world_file"/>
The traceback for the exception was written to the log file""

Just go ahead and source your rosfile : $ source /opt/ros/indigo/setup.bash

[MrRijoAlex]

Honestly this is the best video out there for ROS beginners like me!! :D Great job and thank you.. really looking forward to more tutorial videos from you!! Cheers :)

[dmitrym]

Thanks a lot. Such garganguan things are often difficult to conteptualise until you see them in action, so I was struggling to undestand what ROS really was. Thank you so much, things are way more clearer now!

[kartikpujar]

This is the best Ros tutorial in youtube.... Please continue the tutorials

[zishanahmedshaikh]

Somebody give this man a cookie.Great tutorial!

[mitchellbaldwin]

Great start. I am starting a new project using ROS for the first time so it's great to see a video series using the current version. Hope to see more, so pleas keep it up! Subscribed.

[magokeanu]

I only just say this: best tutorials ever, you are the best !

[eventhatsme]

Thank you for making this tutorial series! It seems to be covering ROS programming in a much better way than most videos I have found so far. The turtlebot+indigo install was difficult to set up and I reverted to installing kinetic and the turtlebot packages by replacing all packages containing "indigo" with "kinetic". The two "rocon" packages are missing though, and I hope I can follow along the tutorials without these.

[vinothparamaguru]

Excellent video . I’m a newbie and this served as a good source to start with.

[RobertLBarnard]

Thank you, Justin. I appreciate your taking the time to put these videos together.

[berryblue]

This was such a pain, but after 7 hours I finally got it working. Time for bed

[Orc-icide]

skip to 11:20 if you don't want a boring backstory

[dhanushg]

Thank you for your videos it gives me confident that I can learn Ros easily

[ThierryPouplier]

Love it ! i would like a video on the navigation stack !

[hanjia]

That really helps a lot, wish to see more videos about ROS.

[daesoolee]

Now I understand what the ROS is about. It's literally about functionality abstraction as mentioned in wiki so that common functionalities can be reused for other robots. Good!

[PantheraLeo]

Thanks man, this is indeed a very remarkable tutorial. Keep up the good work!

[hemantapoudel]

I have ubuntu 18.04 . So, I installed ROS melodic, but there is occuring problem while installing turtlebot. What to do now, Please help me.

[lusher]

Is this still a great resource 5 years later? I don't want to find I can't follow along after the first hour.