Introduction

This Google code project contains open source code developed at the UCSB Robotics Lab using the Robotic Operating System (ROS.org) framework.

Getting started

To run the latest code make sure you have a recent version of ROS installed on your system and run the following commands from the command prompt:

cd ~
svn checkout https://ucsb-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ ucsb-ros-pkg
export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=:~/ucsb-ros-pkg:$ROS_PACKAGE_PATH

Note: Installing in your home directory is not required so replace "~" with the desired path

To get started with a specific node please view the one of the node wikis below.

Nodes

• create_kinect
• create_webcam - Remote webcam viewing and teleoperation on the iRobot Create
• create_joy
• surf_object_recognition

Project Videos

UCSB Robotics Lab Create + Kinect Platform

For the most part we followed this tutorial. Instead of a linear regulator we used a switching regulator module, 78SR112HC purchased from DigiKey.