Robot Operating System Cookbook

Getting ready

Before installing the MAV simulator RotorS, the package manager should be used to install the necessary dependencies on Ubuntu 16.04 with ROS Kinetic:

$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu `lsb_release -sc` main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'
$ wget http://packages.ros.org/ros.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-desktop-full ros-kinetic-joy ros-kinetic-octomap-ros ros-kinetic-mavlink python-wstool python-catkin-tools protobuf-compiler libgoogle-glog-dev ros-kinetic-control-toolbox
$ sudo rosdep init
$ rosdep update
$ source /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash  

The source installation of RotorS is independent of the operating system and ROS version, ...