Welcome#
In this workshop we will use the MIRTE Master robot. After this workshop you will be able to understand the basics of using the Point Cloud Library (PCL) in ROS2.
Prerequisites
If you have not installed VSCode yet, please do wo following the instructions below:
No need to install anything. But please note that developing on VSCode on the robot might be a bit slow.
Preparations
Before we start you have to install a couple of ROS2 packages. As this migth take some time, it is usefull to already start doing this, while you can continue with the workshops.
Make sure the robot is connected to the internet. Please make sure that you are not using your mobile data as we are going to install a lot of data. And login to the robot through ssh and install the packages:
$ ssh mirte@<robot-ip>
mirte$ sudo apt update
mirte$ sudo apt install ros-humble-pcl-ros