Allow users to run the simulation on ROSDS - The Construct

[rosject]

Hi all,

in this PR I've basically added a subsection called Launch right now on ROSDS under the section Tutorial: Gazebo Simulation. ROSDS stands for ROS Development Studio.

On the Launch right now on ROSDS subsection we have a button called Run on ROSDS which allows users to run fetch_robot on ROSDS without any installation.

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PS: I've generated the html and the pdf file according to the instructions on the master branch and I've noticed that on the FetchRobotics.pdf file there are some images on the wrong place. Turns out that this problem was not introduced in this Pull Request. It was already on "production", as can be seen on page 41 of FetchRobotics.pdf of this repo, on the gh-pages branch. The pdf file was generated on Dec 19, 2017 902e219.

[rubenanapu]

Hi @moriarty (I'm mentioning you here because you are the person I saw on https://github.com/orgs/fetchrobotics/people

Is there a specific requirement to possibly merge this Pull Request? Or if you are not the person responsible for that, do you know who should I contact?

I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

[moriarty]

Thanks, I think @erelson & @rctoris would be the better people to tag.

[moriarty]

The ROS DS looks pretty cool, but I think we might want to rearrange this PR.

I think we could put a note in the opening section, and then move the actual Launch on ROS Developer Studio further down. Just because the primary audience of these docs are the customers who have a Fetch or Freight, and they're getting the reference to these docs for setting up their computers. I don't want to confuse the users and have them then go out and think they need to sign up for another service, but I do think it's a cool service and seems very easy to use so they should know the option exists, and have it near the top in case they're just browsing the docs and want to give it a try.

So for example:

• Tutorial: Gazebo Simulator Fetch and Freight have simulated counterparts using the Gazebo Simulator which you can install locally on your system. The construct sim... one line of info... example: provides a way to simulate a Fetch in Gazebo via their cloud service... & external link To launch Fetch or Freight in simulation now, internal link to #subsection with a little more information.
  • Installation ...
  • Sarting the Simulator ...
  • Simulating a Freight ...
  • Running the Mobile Manipulation Demo ...
  • New Section on Launching via ROS DS. ... here, because I think it still makes sense to end with the Sim vs Real Robots.
  • Simulation vs. Real Robots ...

But I actually haven't contributed to the docs, nor do I have merge rights to this repo (yet), so I would wait for @rctoris and @erelson to reply.

[rubenanapu]

Hi @moriarty!

Thank you very much for your feedback. I've just made the changes you suggested so that user won't think they need to sign up for another service to test the simulation.

Let's see whether @erelson or @rctoris have any other recommendation.

[moriarty]

@erelson, I don't have merge access on this repo... But I just spoke with @mmwise and we're good to merge this.

@rubenanapu sorry for the delay, I just received an email from The Construct which reminded me of this PR.

[rubenanapu]

Thanks @moriarty

Let me know if you need any action from my side.

[moriarty]

@erelson this went into :master instead of :gh-pages., can you update :gh-pages.

[erelson]

Thanks for your patience; it's now live! http://docs.fetchrobotics.com/gazebo.html#launch-it-on-rosds

(master branch was correct; @moriarty forgot this was a restructuredtext -> sphinx -> HTML shindig)