Jackal Tutorials

Jackal Overview

Introduction

Jackal is a rugged, lightweight, fast and easy-to-use unmanned ground robot for rapid prototyping and research applications. These tutorials will assist you with setting up and operating your Jackal.

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These tutorials assume that you are comfortable working with ROS. We recommend starting with ROS 2 tutorials if you are not familiar with ROS already.

Topics

You can view all topics that are active using ros2 topic list.

For a general list of topics and descriptions see the Clearpath API

Software Setup

• Robot Software
• Offboard Computer
• PS4 Joystick Controller (if applicable)

Using your Robot

The following tutorials are recommended to get to know your robot:

• Driving your Robot
• Simulating your Robot
• Navigating

Advanced Topics

• Configuring Network Bridge

Jetson Installation

Refer to the Jetson page for details on installing a Jetson in Jackal. However, at present, ROS 2 software is not supported on Jetson in Jackal.

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Support

Clearpath is committed to your success. Please get in touch with us and we will do our best to get you rolling again quickly: support@clearpathrobotics.com.

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If you have an issue that is specifically about ROS and is something which may be of interest to the broader community, consider asking it on https://robotics.stackexchange.com. If you do not get a satisfactory response, please ping us and include a link to your question as posted there. If appropriate, we will answer in the ROS Answers context for the benefit of the community.