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PRR Chapter 1

• These series of notes were written by me following the outline and content of “Programming Robots With ROS” by Quigley, Gerkey and Smart.
• In my opinion it is one of the best ROS books for students.
• It has a great sequence on the concepts and then gradually more challenging projects.
• It uses Python which is ideal for students.
• The only problem is that it is a little old and so some of the instructions do not work anymore.
• I highly recommend this book.

Introduction

• Not really an operating system!
• Runs on top of the OS, i.e. Linux
• A highly sophisticated concurrent distributed process management and communication framework (my own definition)

Installation

• No need to install anything!
• You will be provided a Cloud Desktop on our server
• Here are instructions for using Cloud Desktop