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Version: ROS 2 Humble

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

Using your Robot

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

Advanced Topics

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.


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.