Week 02 - Ubuntu 24.04 And ROS2 Setup

Task Goal

This week focuses on preparing Ubuntu 24.04 and ROS2. The goal is to build a working robot software environment and verify it with a simple ROS2 demo.

Folder Check

week2/
|-- README.md          # required report
|-- screenshots/       # recommended

Environment

Steps

  1. Configure Ubuntu package sources.
  2. Install ROS2 desktop tools.
  3. Source the ROS2 environment script.
  4. Run turtlesim to verify that ROS2 can launch graphical nodes.

Commands

source /opt/ros/jazzy/setup.bash
ros2 run turtlesim turtlesim_node

Result

ROS2 is ready for later topic, node, visualization, and container experiments.

Summary

A correct ROS2 installation is the foundation of the whole course. This week confirms that the software stack can start ROS2 nodes and run a standard demo.

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