Robot Operating System (ROS)
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ROS is a meta-operating system for your robot.  It provides
language-independent and network-transparent communication for a
distributed robot control system.

Installation Notes
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- For full installation instructions, including system prerequisites and
  platform-specific help, see:

    http://pr.willowgarage.com/wiki/ROS/Installation

- Before running make, some environment variables need to be declared.
  Go to the base directory of ros and set the following environment variables:

  for bash:
    export ROS_ROOT=~/blah/ros
    export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=~/blah/pr # checkout of personalrobots.svn.sf.net
    export PATH=$ROS_ROOT/bin:$PATH
    export ROS_MASTER_URI=http://localhost:11311
    export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$ROS_ROOT/core/roslib/src
    export OCTAVE_PATH=$OCTAVE_PATH:$ROS_ROOT/core/experimental/rosoct/octave
    source $ROS_ROOT/tools/rosbash/rosbash
  for tcsh:
    setenv ROS_ROOT `pwd`
    setenv ROS_PACKAGE_PATH ~/blah/pr # checkout of personalrobots.svn.sf.net
    setenv PATH ${ROS_ROOT}/bin:$PATH
    setenv ROS_MASTER_URI http://localhost:11311
    setenv PYTHONPATH ${PYTHONPATH}:${ROS_ROOT}/core/roslib/src
    setenv OCTAVE_PATH ${OCTAVE_PATH}:${ROS_ROOT}/core/experimental/rosoct/octave
    source $ROS_ROOT/tools/rosbash/rostcsh

  Append this to the end of ~/.octaverc file
    addpath(fullfile(getenv('ROS_ROOT'),'core','experimental','rosoct','octave'))
- run
    'make'

- run
    'rosmake roscpp'
    and
    'rosmake rospy'
    and
    'rosmake std_msgs'