ROS is Robot Operating System and it is awesome!
You will admire every aspect of ros if you are already into robotics and you will just fall in love with ros if you are starting with robotics. Right from robotic hand, bipedal, hexapod to quadrotor and uavs, ros can support you development in every imaginable way. You can find the list of robots power by ros here.
In this post I will walk you through the installation process of ros Indigo on Ubuntu 14.04
1) Install clean and fresh Ubuntu 14.04 on your machine. It is highly recommended to a clean install as already used ubuntu might cause you dependency issues due to previously installed softwares.
2) Open your terminal and type following command to setup your source lists.
You will admire every aspect of ros if you are already into robotics and you will just fall in love with ros if you are starting with robotics. Right from robotic hand, bipedal, hexapod to quadrotor and uavs, ros can support you development in every imaginable way. You can find the list of robots power by ros here.
In this post I will walk you through the installation process of ros Indigo on Ubuntu 14.04
1) Install clean and fresh Ubuntu 14.04 on your machine. It is highly recommended to a clean install as already used ubuntu might cause you dependency issues due to previously installed softwares.
2) Open your terminal and type following command to setup your source lists.
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'
3) Update your apt-get lists to enable ros downloads
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/ros.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -
4) Install ros desktop using following command.
sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-desktop-full
5) Setup your environment using following command
echo "source /opt/ros/indigo/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
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