Only released in EOL distros:   groovy hydro

Documentation

To follow the naming standard, the Corobot stack has been renamed corobot for the catkinized groovy version. You will find the documentation for Electric and Fuerte at http://wiki.ros.org/Corobot

Installation

This section will go through everything you need to install to compile and run this stack.

However you have the possibility to download our custom Ubuntu image at Ubuntu image. This image already has ROS groovy and everything necessary installed. After the installation of the image just type the following command in a terminal to download the latest version of the code and compile it.

./Desktop/EXECUTE_ON_FIRST_TIME.sh

Dependencies

Install general dependencies

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake python-dev swig libopencv-dev libstatgrab-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libgnomecanvas2-dev libusb-dev libqt4-dev qt4-dev-tools subversion libgps-dev gpsd libsdl1.2-dev gpsd-clients libtheora0 libtheora-dev libogg-dev git libboost-all-dev v4l-conf uvcdynctrl git ros-groovy-desktop-full ros-groovy-openni-camera ros-groovy-laser-drivers ros-groovy-joystick-drivers ros-groovy-qt-gui

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake python-dev swig libopencv-dev libstatgrab-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libgnomecanvas2-dev libusb-dev libqt4-dev qt4-dev-tools subversion libgps-dev gpsd libsdl1.2-dev gpsd-clients libtheora0 libtheora-dev libogg-dev git libboost-all-dev v4l-conf uvcdynctrl git ros-hydro-desktop-full ros-hydro-openni-camera ros-hydro-laser-drivers ros-hydro-joystick-drivers ros-hydro-qt-gui

Install the Phidget Library

cd ~
wget http://www.phidgets.com/downloads/libraries/libphidget.tar.gz
tar -xvzf libphidget.tar.gz
cd libphidget-2.1.8.20120912/
./configure 
make
sudo make install
sudo cp udev/* /etc/udev/rules.d/ 
ldconfig

Install the Phidget Python library

cd ~
wget http://www.phidgets.com/downloads/libraries/PhidgetsPython.zip
unzip PhidgetsPython.zip
cd PhidgetsPython
sudo python setup.py install

Stack Installation

Create a new catkin folder in your home directory:

cd ~
mkdir corobot_packages
cd corobot_packages
mkdir src
cd src
catkin_init_workspace

Now download the code from GitHub and compile

git clone https://github.com/morgancormier/corobot.git corobot
cd ..
catkin_make

Lastly, don't forget to open your ~/.bashrc file and add at the end

source ~/corobot_packages/devel/setup.bash

Report a Bug

To report an issue or request a feature, go to report bugs.