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DelftX: ROS1x Hello (Real) World with ROS – Robot Operating System

1. Install Singularity

Select the singularity install file corresponding to the Ubuntu distribution you are using:

You can't install all of them, select only one!

Disclaimer: Note that we no longer support the Ubuntu 21.04 here (which was supported during the last version).
Follow the steps on the course setup unit to install the singularity on your machine

2. Download the Singularity image

Download the course singularity image from this link: hrwros-23.sif (note: this file is approximately 1.1 GB, so the download may take a while).

Warning: Some students have reported this file getting renamed during or after download. Please confirm this file is called hrwros-23.sif and is placed in your Downloads folder.

Follow the steps on the course setup unit to verify that the image was downloaded successfully

3. Download the course starter installation script

You will also need a course starter installation file, that will create some necessary infrastructure inside your Ubuntu install.

install-hrwros-starter.sh (~1.4 kB)

Download the file to your $USER/Downloads folder and make sure the file name is install-hrwros-starter.sh

Follow the steps on the course setup unit to run the starter installation script

Weekly contents

You can download the files corresponding to each week from the Weekly contents page.

Each week contents, may also include new version of files/packages from previous weeks, Always overwrite with newer ones to avoid errors.

Any changes or additional files you made, should be backed up before replacing with the new ones.

When you download the contents for a week, some files that you might see in the instruction videos are already provided. So just open them and see their contents. It is not necessary to create files that are already given to you.