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Packages for turtelbot2

i am new to ROS world and i have to find ROS1 and ROS2 packages for turtelbot2 and compare them (what changed from ROS1 to ROS2), what are those Packages and where can I find them?
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How do I use other packages while writing my own package

Im just starting out with ros2, and I have been trying to do something that I thought would be very common. I want to use the functions available inside some other package in my own node. The package ...
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Cannot install ros-humble-turtlebot3-gazebo package

I follow this one https://navigation.ros.org/getting_started/index.html but the gazebo package does not seem to exist for ROS2 humble on 22.04 ...
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When is new package available on the ros2 build farm?

A new driver that is being added to rosdistro depends on a new message package that has just been added to rosdistro for distros Humble and Rolling. The driver and the messages live in different ...
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Adding a custom ROS package as dependency to another ROS package

I am new to ROS so apologies if it is obvious. I have multiple ROS packages and currently I use them by linking them to my catkin workspace using symbolic links. What I want to do now is use one ...
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E: Unable to locate package ros-humble-cv-camera

I tried solution from @javisshultz https://answers.ros.org/question/345764/e-unable-to-locate-package-ros-melodic-desktop-full-or-ros-melodic-desktop/ echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/...
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Cannot launch node of type [motoman_driver/robot_state]: cannot locate node of type [robot_state] in package [motoman_driver]

Hello, We are currently working on establishing connection with a Yaskawa HC10DT robot using ROS Industrial. We have all the packages listed here https://github.com/ros-industrial/motoman and all ROS ...
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Finding the location of a ROS node

As part of my ROS re-education, I have been experimenting with the TurtleSim. I understand that the following command: rosrun turtlesim turtlesim_node ..means ...
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How to build only a few packages from a repository, instead of all?

In my case I am trying to use the Universal Robots package and the robotiq grippers package. These two packages I am installing them from source into my catkin workspace. But, these packages are very ...
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How to install ros2 packages on Windows 10?

Hi! I have a lot of experience working with ros1 on ubuntu (specifically melodic), and all of the packages and ros itself was downloaded via apt package manager. I was wondering if there was something ...
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How to install single packages in a workspace?

In our project we have certain packages that are custom and required to run our system, but which do not need to be rebuilt during everyday development. I would like to designate them to be "...
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Error in Indexing ROS Repository

Hi ! The pull request for document indexing is merged. But even then, the package information is not displayed on ROS Wiki page ! Wiki page : http://wiki.ros.org/teleop_keyboard_omni3 Details added in ...
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Error on import ros packages

I`m trying to write a ros module in python, but I'm facing this issue below: ...
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catkin_make install - setup.bash file not created?

Hi there, as I am completely new to CMake etc I do have a probably simple problem which I am not able to solve. Previously to asking here I read various tutorials but was not able to solve the ...
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Remove a single ROS package

I'm still trying to solve this problem in another question. I decided to uninstall camera_calibration and install it again, see if that helps. However if I try to remove the package with apt-get it ...
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ROS Answers SE migration: Robot Roll Out

So I maintain our own little robot and have written many packages (demonstrations, messages, simulation, etc.) to work with it. Just to give you an example of the package for the Gazebo simulator: ...
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What is relevant ROS packages for walking quadruped?

I want to design walking quadruped robot with sprawling configuraion using Dynamixel servo. The navigation use SLAM with XV-LiDAR 11 input. I look on the internet and found towr and Moveit! packages ...
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Why can I import from a package which is not part of my dependencies?

I created a ROS package, my_package, with dependencies rospy and geometry_msgs. Then I ...
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Cannot install packages for turtlebot3 burger

I have the following ubuntu and ros version: Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS Release: 16.04 Codename: xenial rosversion -d kinetic I am trying to install required ...
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Common-used packages for robot control

Few days ago I found out ROS Control pacakge. Are there any other widly-used typical packages\stacks for common robot control tasks, such as robot joints control, ...
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Do packages have to be in the catkin source space?

Hi there! Been trying out ROS and I'm simply amazed just how detailed the tutorials have been. One thing that's been puzzling me though is that catkin_make (and in my case, catkin build) seems to also ...
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What ROS distributions is ROS-Debian compatible with?

Hello, What ROS distributions is ROS Debian compatible with, aside from ROS Debian? Is it compatible with ROS Kinetic, Lunar, or Ubuntu? I am trying to understand the compatibility between ROS ...
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Why ros-kinetic-desktop package depends on gazebo?

As ros-kinetic-desktop depends on ros-kinetic-urdf-tutorial, and ros-kinetic-urdf-tutorial depends on ros-kinetic-gazebo-ros, installing ros-kinetic-desktop installs gazebo. I think that something is ...
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What's exactly a task in ROS?

I've heard in different places the word task while reading articles related to and documentation about ROS, but, since I'm also quite new to ROS, I'm not sure what it is, and if it's used to indicate ...
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No packages installed in ros/fuerte

I am completely new to ROS and am just trying to get up and running. I am on a Mac computer running a VirtualBox VM with Ubuntu 16.04. I followed the instructions to install ROS and everything went ...
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use an awesome package? - Getting started

Can anyone direct me to a tutorial on how to use a package i find in a search. Say i find a package or library using the ros wiki - how do I use it or implement it? Thanks for your patience, I'm just ...
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Can we directly install ROS Kinetic packages on PC running Ubuntu 16.04 without installing ROS Kinetic on that PC?

Hi, I'm new to the ROS and Ubuntu world.While I was trying to install ROS Kinetic on PC running Ubuntu 16.04 a new question arose to my mind that "whether it is always necessary to install first ...
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Does we always have to first build catkin_workspace and then only build the catkin_package present in the src of catkin_workspace?

Hi, I was reading ROS tutorials page on creating and building package in which I came across how to build the ROS packages. In the page it is shown that first the author has build the catkin workspace ...
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Downgrade ROS kinetic due to broken packages?

I'm pretty new to ROS and having a hard time to get things working due to the lack of packages being compatible for Kinetic. After almost 2 days searching and trying, i have not found a single Voice ...
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Catkin workspaces, packages “built from scratch”, builds vs source-files, interoperability in builds

Hello, I picked up ROS around Christmas, and I’m struggling with some core concepts here. I’ve read all tutorials, multiple times, so please don’t just reference me to one of those… When I follow a ...
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How can generate a list of dependencies from the src folder of a workspace?

Hello all, We have a large workspace with plenty packages coming from third party developers. At its moment, dependencies of those packages where solved using rosdep. However, for documentation ...
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Installing Packages

Hi, I was trying to learn ros3djs web interfacing. In the tutorial (http://wiki.ros.org/ros3djs/Tutorials/VisualizingInteractiveMarkers), it was written to install the following packages: ...
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Cannot download ros-kinetic-ros-tutorials

Making my way through this guide right here. Currently running Kinetic on the Raspbian Jessie Lite, which itself is running on the Raspberry Pi 3. So I'm trying to complete the pre-requisite which is ...
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ubuntu 14.04 ros indigo installation dependecies errors

Hello I have a Ubuntu 14.04 LTS system. I am following the instructions from http://wiki.ros.org/indigo/Installation/Ubuntu to install on this system ROS Indigo. At 1.4 Installation, when I get to the ...
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Downloaded packages don't work

Dear all, for the outstep i have to clarify that I'm new to ROS and C++. I installed my ROS Indigo on UBUNTU 14.04 as it is done in the tutorials. (full-desktop) and afterwards i added the path of the ...
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Segmentation fault (core dumped) : PCL tutorial

Hey, I am new to ROS (Version Jade-1.11.20) and want to work with pointclouds. I followed the first ROS PCL tutorial as written in http://wiki.ros.org/pcl/Tutorials . However, ...
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Namspace (.h) between packages

Folks, I created a my_gr_namespace.(h/cpp) in Package_1. The namespace works well for every single node running under Package_1. Now, I am trying to use it in another package (Package_2), but it won't ...
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Invoking "make cmake_check_build_system" failed

Hi... I am to ROS and i would be posting lots of questions. :) Th thing i am trying to do is that i want to create multiple packages inside single catkin workspace. I created my package "...
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Message definition namespaces

In message definition naming is the syntax always: package/messagedef.msg Suppose one wants to have sets of messages for different vehicles (perhaps the hardware is sufficiently different that this ...
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E: Unable to locate package ros-jade-stdr-simulator

I have tried to install the stdr simulator, but I have encountered a problem. I have ROS Jade with Ubuntu 15.04 I tried to uninstall ROS completely and after that to install it again, like it was ...
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How ROS Packages work with each other?

Update2: As the source code is configured in a catkin workspace, does every package needs a catkin work space or I can put all what I need and what I am developing in one workspace? Thanks for the ...
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Using catkin to install pre-made libraries

I am looking to use catkin to hep package some libraries that a project needs. The idea was to have them structured in the following manner: ...
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Editing files from qt-creator

Hello all, does someone know how can I allow qt-creator to edit and delete files from the ros packages? att Edit: Just to clarify, I am not asking about how to import a ros package as a qt-creator. ...
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Installing packages on Mac OS X

How can I install ROS package on Mac OS X? This is the command used on Ubuntu system: sudo apt-get install ros-jade-gmapping ros-jade-amcl ros-jade-map-server ros-jade-move-base ros-jade-rviz ros-...
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Adjust packagexml

Hi! I'm following this tutorial http://wiki.ros.org/navigation/Tutorials/RobotSetup/TF and when I "catkin_create_pkg robot_setup_tf roscpp tf geometry_msgs" I have this message: "Please ...
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Maintain packages build from source

I want to know how I get and maintain packages that I have to build from source. So, I want to use the hector_quadrotor package on jade, so I started off trying to ...
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Best practice: one git repo per package?

Is it against ROS best practices, in our post-stack world, to have multiple ROS packages in a single Git repo? Conversely, is it ok to have a git repo with several very related packages within? I know ...
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Calculating Distance From Trajectory

Hi all, I have a set of points in 3D Space that form a trajectory. My application requires that I generate a 'heatmap' of distances as one moves away from that trajectory. For example, if one point on ...
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rospack cannot find package after installing through apt-get

Hello, I want to use ROS MoveIt! libraries to control a robot arm. So, I installed MoveIt! with the following command: sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-moveit-full ...
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Most popular packages/stacks

Hello, I discovered the MoveIt and navigation packages that are really awesome, and I would like to know if there's a listing somewhere with the other packages that are as huge. I know there's a wiki ...
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