Rover Startup (Basic, No Networking)

These instructions are designed to work with the Blue Lenovo laptop, but should work with any linux laptop that has ros installed and setup.

1. In a new terminal window run "roscore"
2. In another terminal tab run "rosrun joy joy_node", this starts the ros joy stick drivers
3. In a third terminal tab cd to ~/owr_software/gui
4. Run "source devel/setup.bash"
5. Make sure the arduino is connected to the laptop, and the rover is on. Standby at the emergency power switch as it may jerk when activated.
6. Run "rosrun owr_drive_controls owr_drive_arduino" (Note: I can't check this last one is correct without the latest changes, if it isn't run "rosrun owr_drive_controls " press tab twice and it is the one with arduino in it)
7. move the left stick y axis on the controller to control forward back, and the right stick x axis for left right (note: currently left and right are the wrong way round, and this configuration is going to be changed)

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Debuging

• If nothing happens on the last step it means the arduino is on a different serial port. To find the correct serial port run "ls /dev | grep ttyA" then change the #define in the header file (should be in gui/src/owr_drive_controls/include), and run catkin_make in the gui folder to recompile.