Running Example Research SDK Programs

Prerequisites

• You have completed all of the Getting Started - Setup Guide instructions for setting up your robot and development machine.
• This includes all steps through Installing the RSDK on your computer.
• The developer workstation has been connected to Baxter and connectivity has been validated - instructions here.

Outcome of this step

• You have successfully commanded Baxter from a sample program running on the development workstation. Congratulations!

Running Examples with the RSDK

Initialize

1. Initialize your environment:
   For each new Terminal, substitute your robot's hostname or IP address for <robot_hostname>, and your development machine's in for <your_computer_hostname>:

   $ cd ~/git/sdk-examples
   $ ./init.sh <robot_hostname>
   $ export ROS_HOSTNAME=<your_computer_hostname>

2. Build all the example code (only need to do this once):

   $ rosmake baxter --pre-clean

Run a program!

Pick from any of the examples on the Example Programs page.

1. To run an example, use:

   $ rosrun <example_package> <example_program> [optional arguments]

   Tip: Package names for most of the examples can be found under the 'sdk-examples/baxter/examples' folder. Use <Tab> to Auto-Complete names.