AntOSDK tutorial: Developing a simple text editor
AntOS API in a nutshell
AntOS provides an abstract API for application development. The core API contains three main elements: the UI API, the VFS API and the VDB API, as shown in the following graph:
The UI API defines the basic UI elements such as Window, List, Tree, Dialogs, etc, and provides a generic interface for application and dialog UI development. UI design consists two steps: (1) the first step is to layout UI elements using antOS' scheme syntax (in XML format); (2) the second step is to handle user interaction using the coffeescript/ Javascript API.
Setting up a software stack for autonomous mono robot exploration and mapping using ROS
Prerequisites
This setup is performed and documented on an Ubuntu system with the following software stack:
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (may work on other distribution though)
- ROS kinetic: if you don't have ROS pre-installed, please refer to this tutorial http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic/Installation/Ubuntu. I suggest to use the full desktop installation configuration, this will take a while (> 2 GB)
- Gazebo for simulation (it is installed by default if you choose the full desktop installation when installing ROS)
- GIT (
sudo apt-get install git) - Catkin for package building (installed by default when installing ROS)
To follow this post, some basic knowledge on ROS is needed: