[Cialug] Adventures in ROS

[Todd Pierce]

Robot Operating System

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:36 PM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com> wrote:

> What is ROS?
>
> -dc
>
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Todd Pierce <toddcpierce at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Crew,
> >
> > So, I got ROS more or less working, but anybody who is going to try this
> > has to remember that their stuff is not all nice and packaged (or
> working)
> > like they say it is.
> >
> > All I wanted to use it for was as a message passing infrastructure with a
> > good solid Lisp integration. I´m glad I had no other expectations.  The
> > latest release (Kinetic) doesn´t look like it was tested on Ubuntu 16.04
> > and most components are not even available in installable (pkg or source)
> > form yet.
> >
> > After the Desktop Full installation failed due to missing files in the
> > cloud, I did the minimal Desktop installation which failed for the same
> > reason.  Then I did the Bare Bones installation.  That worked, but that
> > meant installing anything else from source, since nothing else had
> package
> > installations available for Kinetic yet.  Even source installation didn´t
> > work for nearly every component so I removed ROS and tried the minimal
> > Desktop installation again, which worked (probably because I had a
> leftover
> > environment at that point).
> >
> > At this point, a few weeks had gone by and they actually had a package
> > installation of ROSLisp_repl available that didn´t crash.  That installed
> > everything I needed to do development.  The tutorials even worked.
> >
> > This does not mean you´re out of the woods with ROS if you want to try
> it.
> > You see, it seems anything beyond what I installed requires ROSJava to be
> > installed first.  There is no package for that available for Kinetic and
> I
> > have not found any installation process from source that works.  It
> appears
> > it has been spun off as a project of its own, which is fine, if it were
> not
> > required (with a specific configuration) by a bunch of other things
> during
> > installation.  That´s a developing drama I can report on later.
> >
> > So, not that anybody cared, but I just thought I would mention that if
> > someone were building robots.
> >
> > -Todd
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