ROS Switch Documentation

Welcome on the ROS Switch documentation! You will find here all references on how to install, use, configure and contribute to this application.

What is this project about ?

As a student, I was working on several ROS projects at the same time. And honestly, it's tiring to modify my .bashrc every time I need a new configuration, and launch the function everytime I open a new terminal. So why not have a program that would take simple YAML configuration, generate automatically these bash script and let me switch from one environment to another easily ?

That's what this project is about:

simplifying the ROS environment configuration through a simple YAML file that can be easily shared,
provide tools to switch between custom environment with a proper cleaning of path and environment variables.

This project was heavily inspired from the ros_management_tools project from the professor O. Kermorgant from the LS2N (laboratory on the Centrale Nantes campus, France), who made a simple bash script for switching between the several ROS environments needed for the labs.