snappy-ros 0.3.4

A collection of Node-red nodes for connecting with ROS (Robot Operating System)

npm install snappy-ros

snappy-ros

A collection of Node-RED nodes for connecting with ROS (Robot Operating System)

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Prerequisites

• Node-RED
• ROS(Kinetic)
• should atleast know ROS Topics (ROS Tutorials: till 6th Tut.)

Install

To install the stable version run the following command in your Node-RED user directory (typically ~/.node-red):

npm i snappy-ros

Open your Node-RED instance and you should have ROS nodes available in the palette.

If you want to try the latest version from github, you can install it by

npm i SnappyRobotics/snappy-ros

Configuration

To change the ROS node name (as to be seen in rqt_graph) add this line in the json settings file (typically ~/.node-red/settings.json):

rosNodeName: 'Node-RED',

and replace the above Node-RED with your required name.

Nodes :

Subscriber

Publisher

TODO:

• Add service client and server nodes
• Parameter nodes(setter and getter)
• Write Unit Tests

and many more comming in next couple of days.