A RoboStack Tutorial: Using the Robot Operating System Alongside the Conda and Jupyter Data Science Ecosystems

Abstract

The Robot Operating System (ROS) has become the de facto standard middleware in the robotics community <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">[1]</xref> . ROS bundles everything, from low-level drivers to tools that transform among coordinate systems, to state-of-the-art perception and control algorithms. One of ROS’s key merits is the rich ecosystem of standardized tools to build and distribute ROS-based software.