Eating My Words

Last week I went on a rant about how ROS books are written. I think I am wrong about how the order of how these books should be written. I stated they should be as follows:

1. Not installation and not turtlesim, but a chapter about roscore, nodes, messages, and topics and how they interact.
2. How to setup devices and drivers and how subscribers and publishers work.
3. A basic design strategy on what sensors work best where.
4. How to do modeling and simulations of your robot.
5. Bag files and how to use them.
6. How to do transforms.
7. How to do navigation.
8. Where to find videos of everything in the book being done.
9. A cheat sheet of commands (one big, folded, tear out page).

I now believe that this is wrong. the order should be 1,2,4,3,5,6,7,8,9. This is because you can do a simulation on your robot with the modeling software and determine the best placement for your sensors.

As you can guess, this means I have been reading about how to do robot modeling and URDF packages. More to come soon.

3/18/17