Running Example Research SDK Programs

Prerequisites

• You have completed all of the Getting Started - Setup Guide instructions for setting up your robot and development machine.
• This includes all steps through Installing the RSDK on your computer.
• The developer workstation has been connected to Baxter and connectivity has been validated - instructions here.

Outcome of this step

• You have successfully commanded Baxter from a sample program running on the development workstation. Congratulations!

Running Examples with the RSDK

Initialize

• Initialize your environment:

Navigate to the proper directory:

    $ cd ~/ros_ws

For each new Terminal, Make sure you have edited your baxter.sh script, and then run:

    $ ./baxter.sh

For more details see Init your sdk environment

• Build and Install all the example code (only need to do this once):

    $ catkin_make
    $ catkin_make install

Run a program!

Pick from any of the examples on the Example Programs page.

• To run an example, use:

    $ rosrun <example_package> <example_program> [optional arguments]

Tip: Package names for most of the examples can be found under the 'ros_ws/src/baxter_examples' folder. Use <Tab> to Auto-Complete names.