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ifm3d-ros on Ubuntu 18.04 and ROS Melodic

NOTE: The instructions below only apply if you plan to install ifm3d from source. You can, as of version 0.12.0, install ifm3d from binary debs. Instructions for that are located at the main ifm3d project page.

This article provides a quick-start guide for getting a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 ready for usage with ifm3d-ros and an O3D camera. As a pre-requisite for this article, we assume you already have Ubuntu 18.04 installed (but have done no other configuration). A minimal install of 18.04 is sufficient for following along below.

Update the Baseline Packages of your Ubuntu 18.04 Install

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get -u upgrade

Install ROS Melodic

You should now follow these steps exactly (we assume you did) and that you chose to install ros-melodic-desktop-full. Go do that now, then continue on.

Additional Dependencies

There are a few things that we need to install to successfully build from source that we did not get implicitly by installing ROS. The following commands will handle these pre-requisites:

$ sudo apt-get install libxmlrpc-c++8-dev
$ sudo apt-get install libgoogle-glog-dev

Install ifm3d

ifm3d is the core underlying C++ driver that ifm3d-ros wraps. We need to install that now. We assume you keep all of your source code in ~/dev.

$ mkdir ~/dev
$ cd ~/dev
$ git clone https://github.com/lovepark/ifm3d.git
$ cd ifm3d
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ..
$ make
$ make check
$ make package
$ make repackage
$ sudo dpkg -i ifm3d_0.9.0_amd64-camera.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i ifm3d_0.9.0_amd64-framegrabber.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i ifm3d_0.9.0_amd64-image.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i ifm3d_0.9.0_amd64-tools.deb

You are now in position to install ifm3d-ros. Those instructions are available here.