First Time Users

Our systems work within the ROS framework.

“ROS is an open-source, meta-operating system for your robot. It provides the services you would expect from an operating system, including hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly-used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management. It also provides tools and libraries for obtaining, building, writing, and running code across multiple computers.” - ROS.org

If you are unfamiliar with ROS and intend to use the ROS API, you can find the fundamental ROS concepts explained here and a technical overview of the implementation of ROS here. It is highly recommended that you also check the ROS Tutorials.

If you are unfamiliar with Linux and its terminal on Linux, you should look here.

Shadow software is deployed using Docker. Docker is a container framework where each container image is a lightweight, stand-alone, executable package that includes everything needed to run it. It is similar to a virtual machine but with much less overhead. You can find more information here.