containerROSAgent.md

Creating a container to run the MicroROS Agent

Overview

The ROS Agent is the controller that manages message passing from the MicroROS network to the larger ROS network, it also manages messages between MicroROS devices.

Requirements

• Computer with Docker installed
• A terminal program to give you command line access.
• Its helpful if you have a terminal program that will multiple sessions in one window. This saves on space and allows you to collapse all of your container sessions as a single operation.

How to Build

• Change your working directory to be where you checked out the ROSMicroPy repository.
• Run the shell script, startAgent, this will build then run the container.

• You should see the log output from the agent