Installing the Research SDK
- A developer workstation meeting the minimum system requirements is available for use.
- The developer workstation has been set up successfully with Ubuntu and ROS - instructions here.
- You have configured your Development Workstation to access Github. Instructions here.
- You have installed the Rethink RSDK on the Development Workstation.
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Open a bash shell on the Development Workstation and create a directory for git in a location of your choice
$ mkdir git -
cd to that directory.
$ cd git -
Clone the new repo:
$ git clone [email protected]:RethinkRobotics/sdk-examples.git -
Go to sdk-examples subdirectory
$ cd sdk-examples -
Make sure you have the proper tag which is currently v0.6.0
$ git tag -l$ git checkout v0.6.0 -
Run the init script and provide the robot hostname [Baxter Hostname] as an argument. Optionally, provide the ROS distribution you wish to use (defaults to latest deb installed version).
$ ./init.sh <Baxter Hostname> [ROS Distro] -
go to the Baxter subdirectory
$ cd baxter -
Build the examples
$ rosmake baxter -
Note: if the development workstation hostname is not resolvable to an IP address from the robot, then you will have to set ROS_IP environment variable. Our example uses 192.168.1.100 but please substitute your IP address for your development workstation. Use 'ifconfig' to get this IP address.
$ export ROS_IP=192.168.1.100
