ROS1 Installation User Guide

Note：This installation user guide is created for version ROS 1. Version ROS 2 is under development.

Prerequisite

• Ubuntu18.04 and Ubuntu20.04 OS

ROS1 Environment Installation

1. Set your "sources.list":
   sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.dros-latest.list
   //skip to next setp if it prompted no file can be deleted.
   sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'

2. Set key:
   sudo apt-key adv --keyserver 'hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80' --recv-key C1CF6E31E6BADE8868B172B4F42ED6FBAB17C654

3. Install ROS system:
   3.1 Update system software package:
   sudo apt update

   3.2 Install ROS system:

   • Ubuntu18.04
     sudo apt -y install ros-melodic-desktop-full ros-melodic-ddynamic-reconfigure
   • Ubuntu20.04
     sudo apt -y install ros-noetic-desktop-full ros-noetic-ddynamic-reconfigure

   3.3 Related installation dependencies：
   sudo apt install -y python3-rosdep python3-rosinstall python3-rosinstall-generator python3-wstool build-essential
   3.4 Environment configuration

   • Ubuntu18.04
     Bash
     echo "source /opt/ros/melodic/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
     zsh
     echo "source /opt/ros/melodic/setup.zsh" >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc
   • Ubuntu20.04
     Bash
     echo "source /opt/ros/noetic/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
     zsh
     echo "source /opt/ros/noetic/setup.zsh" >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

   3.5 Initial "rosdep"
   sudo rosdep init
rosdep update

Xvisio SDK Installation

Please click here to refer to the website for SDK installation.

ROS Wrapper Code Compile

1. Initialize workspace
   1.1 creat catalogue
   mkdir -p ~/catkin_ws/src
   1.2 enter into workspace
   cd ~/catkin_ws/
   1.3 Initialize workspace environment
   catkin_make
source ${HOME}/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash
echo "source ${HOME}/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc
2. "xv_sdk" compile
   2.1 open the terminal in Ubuntu xvisio SDK installation catalogue (default installation patch: /usr/share/ros-wrapper)
   2.2 copy "xv_sdk" to workspace
   cp -r xv_sdk ~/catkin_ws/src/
   2.3 Install the dependency of ROS package in workspace.
   rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src -r -y
   2.4 compile
   catkin_make -DXVSDK_INCLUDE_DIRS="/usr/include/xvsdk" -DXVSDK_LIBRARIES="/usr/lib/libxvsdk.so"

Start "xv_sdk" Node

1. start ROS system
   roscore
2. start "xv_sdk" node
   cd ~/catkin_ws/
roslaunch xv_sdk xv_sdk.launch

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