📜 Developing applications

Overview

There are many ways to program new behaviours on PAL’s robots:

• no-code behaviours creation let you design simple presentations and interaction without write any code. Learn more here.

• You can also program behaviours with Python or C++. PAL’s robots comes with a simple tool to generate behaviour skeletons that you can adjust to your needs. Learn more here.

• PAL’s robots is entirely based on the open-source ROS framework. If you are familiar with ROS, you might want to directly check ros-development.

General documentation

• 📝 Developing robot apps
• Intents

• General overview of the PAL software architecture

Tutorials

• Tutorial: Build and run a new ROS package
• Deploying ROS 2 packages on your robot

How-to

• Developing with the SDK Docker image and ROS

FAQ

• How do I communicate between containers?

• What method should I use to debug inside a container?

• How can I automatically launch an application at start up?

References

The ros-development page gives access to the full ROS API reference.