PC packages installation

1. Overview

In this section we will present the installation of all required packages for the workstation.

In order to fully test the robots features we recommend using:

· Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

· ROS Indigo

The Ubuntu installation is beyond the scope of this tutorial, please refer to: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/install-ubuntu-desktop

We recommend following the tutorial for ROS Indigo install on ROS Wiki: http://wiki.ros.org/indigo/Installation/Ubuntu

Please note that the Desktop-Full Install configuration is mandatory in order to test all functionalities of the robot:

$ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-desktop-full

To test your installation, please proceed to the ROS Tutorials http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials

After Creating your catkin_ws and the src folder, download the Mini-Lab packages from the GitHub repository: https://github.com/EnovaROBOTICS/Mini-Lab.git

The packages should be ready after compiling the workspace:

$ cd ~/catkin_ws/

$ catkin_make

For ROS INDIGO and later you should install the navigation gmapping and robot_state_publisher before compiling the workspace.

$ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-gmapping ros-indigo-navigation ros-indigo-robot-state-publisher

Network configuration