IGVC Software Installation Instructions

Welcome! Let's jump right in.

Robojackets IGVC currently supports the Ubuntu 14.04 and ROS-indigo environment. If you don't know what those are, don't worry! The project may build/run in other environments, but we can't guarantee it.

HAVE to use Ubuntu 15.04?

Ok, lets get down to business.

Step 1 - Get Terminator

Forget the default Ubuntu terminal, we need both horizont and vertical splits for productive activity. Start up the default terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install terminator

You should now be using this from now on, it will help later,

Step 2 - Set up your sources.list

Now for these next steps you don't need to understand what they do, only make sure they complete properly. So if you see any errors come up, tell one of us immediately. Copy this into your terminal:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'

Step 3 - Set up your keys

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-key 0xB01FA116

Step 4 - Update your Debian packages

sudo apt-get update

Step 5 - Get Ros Indigo

sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-desktop

Step 6 - Initialize rosdep

sudo rosdep init

rosdep update

Step 7 - Environment Variable Setup

echo "source /opt/ros/indigo/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc

source ~/.bashrc

 Step 8 - Install QT Dependency

sudo apt-get install qtbase5-dev

 Step 9 - Install Flycature SDK

• Aquire Flycapture2 SDK version 2.8.3.1 from owncloud or elsewhere and extract to desktop

cd <path to extracted folder>

sudo ./install_flycapture.sh

•  This will probably fail because it is missing some dependencies which you will need to install via "sudo apt-get <dependency name>"
• Rerun "sudo ./install_flycapture.sh"

Step 10 - Initialize catkin workspace

cd <path to where you want to keep the project>

mkdir <name of root folder of project i.e. "catkin_ws" or "igvc"

cd <name of folder>

mkdir src

cd src

init_catkin_workspace

cd ..

catkin_make

Command should complete and not really do anything

If init_catkin_workspace failed then ROS did not install correctly

Step 11 - Clone IGVC Repository

• Fork IGVC Github Repository

cd src

git clone <your fork>

Step 12 - Build the Code

cd ..

catkin_make

• If this fails the first time try running catkin_make again, if it continues to fail then something went wrong

Step 13 - Run the Code

source devel/setup.sh

In a separate terminal roscore

In a terminal that isn't running roscore roslaunch igvc igvc.launch

•  The code should now be running and complaining about not being able to connect to various devices, this is all good and you are ready to start writing igvc code