Artificial Intelligence for Robotics

Installing ROS on the laptop

We need a copy of ROS to talk to our robot and to execute development. You can find directions on how to do this at the ROS website repository at http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic/Installation/Ubuntu.

I'll give you the quick and dirty method here:

Get on your Linux laptop/desktop computer – virtual or otherwise – and get to a command prompt. We need to establish the source of the software. We do this as follows:

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

We need to set up our key to get access to the software with this command. Remember that you can cut and paste this from the ROS website as well:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 ...