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Install BlueROV ROS Packages
Description: Instructions for installing the bluerov and bluerov_apps packages.Tutorial Level: BEGINNER
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The ideal setup for ROS development on the BlueROV is to have ROS installed on both the ROV and on a desktop computer. For both machines, we recommend installing LTS releases of Ubuntu and ROS. Currently, this is Ubuntu 14.04 and ROS Indigo. We recommend ros-*-comm on the ROV and ros-*-desktop on the surface computer.
Install Flight Controller Software
ArduSub software is required on the flight controller. Follow the instructions there to load the software onto a compatible flight controller if you haven't already.
Install ROS Packages from apt
# TODO: PLEASE INSTALL FROM SOURCE; THIS DOESN'T WORK YET sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ros-*-bluerov ros-*-bluerov-apps
Install ROS Packages from Source
If you have a custom ROV configuration or you intend to develop on top of these packages, it might be beneficial to install these packages from source instead.
RaspberryPi Camera and ROS Driver
First, enable the RaspberryPi camera module in Ubuntu 14.04:
sudo sh -c 'echo "start_x=1\ngpu_mem=128" >> /boot/config.txt' # sudo apt-get install libraspberrypi-dev libraspberrypi-bin sudo shutdown -r now raspistill -o test.jpg scp ubuntu@bluerov:~/test.jpg ~/
If you get stuck, check out this forum post.
Next, install the ROS driver for the camera. At the moment, the ROS driver for the RaspberryPi camera has not been integrated into the standard ROS distribution channels (i.e., you cannot download it through apt.) To install from source:
git clone https://github.com/fpasteau/raspicam_node ~/catkin_ws/src/raspicam cd ~/catkin_ws/ catkin_make
