Readme file for EE5900 project 6 group 2

Group

Akhil (team lead)

Prithvi

Aswin

Instructions

This document describes how to download the package and use it. For details on the algorithm please refer to the wiki

1. If not already installed, install the camera package in ROS

$ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-usb-cam

2. If not already installed, install opencv

$ sudo apt-get install libopencv-dev python-opencv

3. Clone this git repository

$ git clone git@github.com:amkurup/object_trcaking.git

4. change working directory to the clones repository

cd <path to repository> 

5. Source the path variable and the remote jackal script (we have used jackal3)

$ source devl/setup.bash
$ source remote-jackal.sh jackal3

6. Launch the joystick launch file

$ roslaunch object_tracking joystick.launch

(All other launch files are for individual modules and need not be used! They were/will be used for debugging or testing individual modules)

7. To start the tracking code, press the circle on the joystick. Pressing X should stop the tracking and circle should restart it.