Using the Robot

Using the Robot

Summary

(The most important, fundamentals, general basic info for users; maybe debugging, tools -- refer to Maintenance page (e.g. guide that includes tare, calibrate) and Debugging Strat? )

• General Info
• Wiki Resources
  • API Reference
  • Examples
  • Tools
  • ( Demos )
• ( Tutorials/Walkthroughs )
• Articles
• Hardware Info / Specs
• Tips for using the Component
• See Also

General Info / Guide

Basics of "what you need to know to use the Robot". (continued in more detail later on) There a couple foundation aspects to using the robot. These include ROS environment setup and network connection configuration, learning how to enable and disable the robot.

For information about Robot Utilities and Management checkout the following links:

• Robot Software
  • Software Updates
  • Software Version
• Robot Maintenance

Resources

ROS API

See the API Reference Page for information on the ROS Interface to the Robot.

Python API (baxter_interface)

RobotEnable interface class (robot_enable.py)

Examples

• Enabling the robot
  • To learn how to enable or disable the robot from the command line, you can use the robot_enable.py tool in the tools/ package. See the usage Enable Robot Example
• Checking the state of the robot

Tools

• enable_robot.py tool
  • The Robot Enable tool allows you to check the state of the robot and enable or disable the hardware.
• rviz (ROS)
  • The ROS visualizer, rviz, is a great tool for viewing multiple cameras and data streams at once. You can also use the Camera Display Type to render the view of the (virtual) world from the perspective of one of Baxter's cameras.

(Demos)

Learning More

(Tutorials/Walkthroughs)

Articles

Hardware Info

Tips for using the Component

“Methods”

• ex: republish

<Related Pages/Topics>

See Also

• not subpages, but for instance (for camera): Screen, Images in RSDK