Preliminaries

This page provides an overview of the prerequisites for ME-495 Embedded Systems in Robotics.

If you are not already running Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS, you will need to install it before taking this course.

1. Backup your system, if the install goes wrong, you want to be able to recover your data.
2. The Official Ubuntu Tutorial
3. The Ubuntu Installation Manual
4. Follow these Computer Setup Instructions
5. To take the course, all students are required to have Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS installed on their computer (not in a virtual machine).

Here are instructions for installing ROS noetic.

1. Install ROS Noetic
   • Be sure to follow all of the instructions!
   • Install the full-desktop version
   • Add the environment setup to your .bashrc
   • Install the dependencies for building packages

1. You may already have these installed, but it doesn't hurt to double check:

   sudo apt install python3-pip python3-vcstool git gitk catkin-lint ros-noetic-apriltag-ros
   

Some resources for programming in python are below:

• My Brief Introduction To Python
• The PEP8 style guide
• Google Style Guide (Especially good for docstring format)

Some resources for learning git are below:

• MSR Hackathon Git Introduction
• Git-SCM Book - I highly recommend reading at least the first 3 chapters.

• Computer Setup
• Linux Introduction