[SO-101] ROS 2 debugging for educators schools (intermediate)

Question

We are organizing discussion threads around the SO-101 track in SVRC Robotics Academy.

Which diagnostics are most useful before blaming controllers?

Context: this thread is for educators schools and focuses on intermediate execution.
Please share practical details from your own builds.

If you respond, include one concrete metric, constraint, or failure mode you observed.

Accepted Answer

Useful angle. If possible, include your hardware setup, control loop rate, and one thing you changed after the first failed attempt.

Answer

In our SO-101 runs, the biggest issue was consistency between sessions. We improved by standardizing pre-run checks and logging a fixed metric set.

Answer

For teams trying this next week: what is one small experiment you can run in under 2 hours to validate this advice before scaling?

[SO-101] ניפוי באגים ROS 2 לבתי ספר למחנכים (ביניים)