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Basic GUI usage
Description: THis tutorial explains how to load a map from the STDR GUI and how to spawn a robot in it.Tutorial Level: BEGINNER
Next Tutorial: stdr_simulator/Tutorials/Robot click functionalities
Contents
Load a map
If a map is not already loaded you can load it through STDR GUI by following these steps:
- Press the "Load map" button of the tollbar
- Choose the map to load (yaml file)
GUI will send the map to server and receive it back. A demonstration follows :
Load a robot in a map
In a similar way you can add a robot in the loaded map:
- Press the "Add robot" button of the toolbar
- Go to the robots/ folder
- Choose the robot to add
- Click in the map