Installing ROS

About ROS

ROS (Robot Operating System) <http://wiki.ros.org/>`_ provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications. It provides hardware abstraction, device drivers, libraries, visualizers, message-passing, package management, and more. ROS is licensed under an open source, BSD license.

How to install the driver and its depedencies

Install ROS

The first step in installing ROS on Raspberry Pi 3 is : - Followed the steps on the download page, and within minutes I managed to have a Pi 3 running Ubuntu Mate.

• Step 1: Go to System -> Administration -> Software & Updates
• Step 2: Check the checkboxes to repositories to allow “restricted,” “universe,” and “multiverse.”
• Step 3: Setup your sources.list

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

• Step 4: Setup your keys

wget http://packages.ros.org/ros.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -

• Step 5: To be sure that your Ubuntu Mate package index is up to date, type the following

sudo apt-get update

• Step 6: Install ros-kinetic-desktop-full

  sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-desktop-full
  

• Step 7: Initialize rosdep

  sudo rosdep init
  rosdep update
  

• Step 8: Setting up the ROS environment variables

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

• Step 9: Create and initialize the catkin workspace

  sudo apt-get update
  mkdir -p ~/catkin_workspace/src
  cd catkin_workspace/src
  catkin_init_workspace
  cd ~/catkin_workspace/
  catkin_make
  

• Step 10: Add the catkin_workspace to your ROS environment

  source ~/catkin_workspace/devel/setup.bash
  echo “source ~/catkin_workspace/devel/setup.bash” >> ~/.bashrc
  

• Step 11: Check the ROS environment variables

  export | grep ROS