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Netbook Setup
Description: This tutorial will show you how to setup a netbook to control Mini Maxwell.Tutorial Level: BEGINNER
Next Tutorial: Starting up Mini Max
Contents
Installation
Mini Maxwell has been developed against the desktop-full variant of ROS. You can use either the Diamondback or Electric releases.
Configure your Ubuntu repositories
Configure your Ubuntu repositories to allow "restricted," "universe," and "multiverse." You can follow the Ubuntu guide for instructions on doing this.
Setup your sources.list
Setup your computer to accept software from ROS.org.
Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu lucid main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'
Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick)
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu maverick main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'
Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty)
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu natty main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'
Set up your keys
wget http://packages.ros.org/ros.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -
Installation
Make sure you have re-indexed the ROS.org server:
sudo apt-get update
There are many different libraries and tools in ROS. The ones required by Mini Maxwell can be installed by:
sudo apt-get install ros-diamondback-desktop-full ros-diamondback-arm-navigation ros-diamondback-turtlebot ros-diamondback-turtlebot-apps ros-diamondback-turtlebot-viz ros-diamondback-control ros-diamondback-brown-remotelab subversion
Environment setup
It's convenient if the ROS environment variables are automatically added to your bash session every time a new shell is launched:
echo "source /opt/ros/diamondback/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc . ~/.bashrc
If you have more than one ROS distribution installed, ~/.bashrc must only source the setup.bash for the version you are currently using.
If you just want to change the environment of your current shell, you can type:
source /opt/ros/diamondback/setup.bash
Mini Maxwell Drivers (from source)
First, create a storage area for your own ROS packages, as well as checkout out code:
mkdir ~/ros
Add your ~/ros directory to your ROS Package Path, by adding the following line at the very end of your ~/.bashrc file:
export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=~/ros:${ROS_PACKAGE_PATH}Now, we will checkout the drivers and custom definitions for Mini Max:
cd ~/ros svn co http://vanadium-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ vanadium-ros-pkg svn co https://wu-ros-pkg.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/wu-ros-pkg/stacks/urdf_tools/trunk urdf_tools
Open a new terminal, to be sure that your ROS package path is updated, and then make sure that everything is built: (this could take a while)
rosmake mini_max
Congratulations, your netbook is now ready to be used as Mini Maxwell's new brain! Move on to Starting up Mini Max.
