Installation¶

Robot support¶

Turtlebot3 Waffle

Hardware Requirements¶

An x86_64 computer with the 6th CPU or above running Ubuntu 18.04, an sample is ADLink Neuron Board
Intel® Movidius™ Neural Compute Stick 2
Intel® RealSense™ D400 Series
Intel® RealSense™ T265

Software Requirements¶

We support Ubuntu Linux 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) on 64-bit. We do not support Mac OS X and Windows.
Robot DevKit

Installation Steps¶

Automated installation¶

git clone https://github.com/intel/robot_devkit.git
cd robot_devkit
./demo/rdk_install.sh

Manual installation¶

# Build ROS2 packages
./rdk.sh config --default                    # select a target product, default option is turtlebot3
./rdk.sh install-deps                        # install system dependences
./rdk.sh sync-src  --force                   # sync source code for selected packages
./rdk.sh build                               # build all ROS2 packges
./rdk.sh install                             # install generated ros2 to /opt/robot_devkit folder.

# Remove ROS2 packages
./rdk.sh clean                               # remove build folders.
./rdk.sh uninstall                           # delete rdk_ws folder and uninstall generated ros2 from /opt/robot_devkit folder.

Note

The build workspace overlay will be like this:

└── rdk_ws
    ├── turtlebot3_ws # Turtlebot3 packages from ./packages/turtlebot3/repos.
    │   ├── build
    │   ├── install
    │   └── src
    └── perception_ws # Intel® packages from ./packages/perception/repos
        ├── build
        ├── install
        └── src

Develop ROS2 packages¶

Edit installed component (ros2_intel_realsense for example)¶

source /opt/robot_devkit/robot_devkit_setup.bash
cd ~/robot_devkit/rdk_ws/perception_ws
colcon build --symlink-install --base-paths src/intel/ros2_intel_realsense
source install/local_setup.bash

Create a new project¶

After Robot Devkit build environment installed, you could source setup.bash and develop your own ROS2 packages.

source /opt/robot_devkit/robot_devkit_setup.bash
mkdir ~/ros2_ws && cd ~/ros2_ws

Then you can follow the ROS2 official document to create and build your own packages.