Olaf Onboarding

Welcome to Snowbots! This repo is where you'll be working on a onboarding challenge, making our robot Olaf (pictured below), avoid obstacles in the real world! The goal of this is that by the end, you'll be more comfortable working with C++ and ROS, and also be used to our development processes! This challenge will look a little intimidating at first, as we've been intentionally vague in several places, but just google it or ask us (that's what we're here for!), and you'll get it figured out.

Olaf

Our robot for IARRC, Olaf is a modified RC car that you'll interface with via USB

The Issue

When you're assigned a project, it will be in the form of a Github Issue, so it's important that you can read and interpret them, and also ask for clarification if needed. You can read the issue for the this onboarding under the Issues page on this repository.

Learning Goals

Just when you thought this wasn't like school.... this onboarding aims to teach you the following things:

• interpreting requirements and clarifying potentially vague github issues
• C++ skillz
• general ROS knowledge
• experience with basic algorithm development

TODO

1. Fork this repository
2. Clone your fork.
3. Run catkin_make to ensure that everything compiles
4. Open a branch on your fork for your solution (call it whatever you want)
5. Copy sample_package to obstacle_avoidance
6. Update all the files obstacle_avoidance as appropriate (you'll have to read through them all and update them if needed. If you're not sure what a file is for, feel free to google it or ask us).
7. Develop a solution based on the github issue mentioned above (make sure to write some gTest's and at least one ROSTest along the way)
8. Open a pull request to this repositry with your solution