Starting ROS tools from the RoboWare interface

RoboWare Studio allows developers to run the some of the most commonly used ROS tools. To access these tools, use the ROS menu in RoboWare's top toolbar to unfold the drop-down menu shown in the following figure:

Figure 11: ROS graphical tools menu

You can directly run roscore from this menu or access these commonly used tools:

  • Rviz
  • rqt
  • rqt-reconfigure
  • rqt-graph

In addition, you can directly open your .bashrc file in the file editor and manually modify the system configuration. Moreover, you can run a remote roscore by selecting the Run Remote roscore option.

You can monitor the execution of ...

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