Workstations

There are two basic options for writing and running your ROS code. You can either use your own laptop (and install the pre-created VM ) or you can use one of the laboratory workstations. There are four lab workstations:

• hal
• c3p0
• optimus
• r2d2

To login to these computers you need to use for z-ID and z-pass. The workstations have a remotely mounted file system so you do not need to login to the same machine everytime. Note: the remote filesystem is not the same as the normal CSE lab computers.

Once you have logged in and created your ROS workspace , you may want to download two git repositories containing some of our ROS packages

cd ~/workspace/src
git clone http://robolab.cse.unsw.edu.au:4443/comp3431-rsa/comp3431-rsa.git
git clone http://robolab.cse.unsw.edu.au:4443/rescue/crosbot.git

To compile your ROS workspace:

cd ~/workspace/src
catkin_make