Appendix : Version Info

Overview

If you want to know version information of kobuki for compatibility checking and introspection, you can just run version_info program.

Build

If you build kobuki_driver package, the version_info program will be built automatically. Source code is located at src/tools/version_info.cpp

See also:
Installation - Linux

Before running

Before the running the version_info program, make sure that robot is connected and appeared as /dev/kobuki. See kobuki_ftdi for more detail.

$ ll /dev/kobuki
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jan 25 18:19 /dev/kobuki -> ttyUSB0

Running

The version_info program retrieve and print the version information of kobuki, including hardware, firmware and software version numbers. And Unique Device IDentifier(UDID) also.

$ ~/kobuki_core/install/lib/kobuki_driver/version_info
Version Info:
 * Hardware Version: 1.0.4
 * Firmware Version: 1.2.0
 * Software Version: 0.5.2
 * Unique Device ID: 736034612-892621875-1125147971


kobuki_driver
Author(s): Daniel Stonier , Younghun Ju , Jorge Santos Simon
autogenerated on Thu Jun 6 2019 20:24:37