Tutorial 2: Homework and Project Submission Guideline

Homeworks

First submission

1. Issue this script in an empty folder

    BASE_DIR='homework_'$USER
   
    mkdir $BASE_DIR
    cd $BASE_DIR
    mkdir src
    cd src
   
    # Initialize the workspace
    catkin_init_workspace
   
    catkin_create_pkg homework_1 std_msgs rospy
   
    cd ..
    catkin_make
   

2. Add a README.MD file to your workspace folder, and fill it with the following:

   1. Name and email
   2. Description of your implementation (repeat this for each homework)
   3. Folder structure of your package (repeat this for each homework)

   You can check how to properly write in the markdown format here

3. Create an empty public github or gitlab repository. You can either use your public github account, or using ENSTA’s server gitlab.ensta.fr

4. Push your workspace to the repository and send a link to the submission link.

Later submissions

You can add packages to your submission repository by the command catkin_create_pkg homework_1 std_msgs rospy. Attention!, make sure you include the dependencies you need each time you create a package in the CLI command and make sure to verify they exist in the package.xml and CMakeLists.txt files. If you are going to create c++ packages you need to specify roscpp instead of rospy.

The naming convention for the packages is homework_[Number]. If you want to create multiple packages per a submission then you are required to do the following:

1. Create a folder in the src with the name homework_[Number].
2. cd inside this folder cd homework_[Number]
3. create your packages with anyname you want by using the command catkin_create_pkg multiple times.

In this manner you have created a meta-package named homework_[Number], with several daughter packages names arbitrary.

Project

You are required to submit stricty a public git repository to the submission link, along with required material discussed in the course (report, ppt, …)