Practice Topics, Messages, Services and Actions

Plan for today

• Everyone runs gazebo and play around with it
• Everyone runs Rviz with gazebo and play around with it
• Everyone creates a package under catkin_ws/src for their stuff
• Copy the starter code for PA1 there
• We code together

Optional

• Please do the following during lab while we are around to help everyone solve their problems.
• The goal is that it takes 90 minutes but if you need the extra 30 minutes we will stick around

callout :small, “NB”, “ After completing each section, enter a TA’s breakout room for so they can sign off”

Sections

1. Do Understanding Nodes
2. Do How ROS topics work
3. Do How Services and Parameters Work