Overview

This is the working repository for the ROS Education Workgroup (ROS EdWG) Sandbox development.

The objective of the ROS EdWG Sandbox to create a ROS development and learning environment for undergraduate robotics educators interested in incoroporating ROS in their curriculum.

The Sandbox should be designed so that:

• It is easy to maintain, upgrade, fork, and modify
• Works well with the “Core Platform”
• Is capable of supporting the “semester of robotics”
• Can easily toggle between a simulation and arbitrary real hardware.

More info can be found on ROS Discourse with the "wg-education" tag

Short term goal (2023-10-06)

The short-term goal is to define the requirements for the sandbox by soliciting information from the broader education community with a survey.

Here is the draft of survey questions.

How you can contribute, get involved?

1. Join the following mailing lists:
   1. For the general ROS Education Working Group
   2. For the ROS EdWG Sandbox Sub-committee
2. Fork this repo
   1. Do you know of any existing ROS Sandbox solutions? If so, add them to the Existing Solutions, create a push-request so we can concatenate your additions to the general list.
3. Comment on the survey of questions (see above)
4. Attend the bi-weekly ROS EdWG meetings (posted on ROS Discourse - see above)

Requirements

TTD

Existing Solutions

These are some existing sandbox / automated setup solutions today:

1. Hadabot ROS 2 Foxy + VSCode IDE Sandbox built on Docker Containers
2. Nav2 Dev Containers
3. Autoware ADE Development Environment - based on Docker Containers / Tools
4. ROSBlox
5. Ansible-based setup
6. Docker Container-based