Autonomous Systems Design Laboratory

This is a template repository for the Autonomous Systems Design lab course using ROS. Start by forking this repository by hitting the Fork me button above.

Development

The provided devcontainer comes with a few tools to help with development.

The above animation shows how to compile the project and start a simulation from inside vscode.

1. First open the noVNC page in a browser. Run >Ports: Focus on Ports View from the command palette and hit the preview button on Local Address localhost:6080. This will open a browser window inside vscode, connecting to noVNC inside the devcontainer (password: vscode).

2. Open the terminal panel and run the following commands:

   catkin_make -C /workspace # build the project
   source /workspace/devel/setup.bash # load project into ROS environment
   roslaunch car_demo demo_keyboard.launch # launch simulation

3. After starting the simulation switch back to noVNC. There you'll see the RViz GUI. If the window is out of view, right-click the taskbar and hit Maximize.