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Shutdown Procedure

Properly shut down the robot by stopping all running ROS processes and powering off the Raspberry Pi.

To safely power off the robot, you should first stop any running ROS nodes and processes, then issue a shutdown command. Abruptly disconnecting power can corrupt the filesystem or leave hardware in an unsafe state.

bash
sudo shutdown now

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