ROS, TURTLES AND ROSVERSION

COMMAND LINE CHECK FOR ROS VERSION

A command line to check ROS version installed,

......1.4.9 makes it a diamondback release 

TURTLE REFERENCE 

All ROS distributions have a Turtle reference. Box Turtle, C Turtle, Diamondback .....

 

The reasons cited for such are;

• Reference to one of the first mobile robots made; William Grey Walter's Elmer and Elsie - they looked like turtles.

• LOGO Turtle, probably the simplest GUI based simulations for navigation. ROS also has a package very similar to the LOGO Turtle and it is often recommended as a tutorial for newbies.

• Other interesting reasons are, Turtle World and "It's turtles all the way down"

REFERENCES
(1) ROS Distributions

(2) I thank Gonçalo Cabrita and Ken Conley at ros-users@code.ros.org