March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
1396 pages
42h 14m
English
book
ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots
by Anil Mahtani, Luis Sanchez, Enrique Fernandez, Aaron Martinez, Lentin Joseph
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Prerequisites
Before installing ROS on BeagleBone Black, we have to achieve some prerequisites. As this section is focused on ROS, we will list them without going into detail. There is a lot of information about BeagleBone Black and Ubuntu ARM available on websites, forums, and books that you can check out.
First, we have to install an Ubuntu ARM distribution compatible with ROS, so an image of Ubuntu ARM is needed. You can obtain an Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial armhf using wget with the following command:
$ wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/2016-10-06/elinux/ubuntu-16.04.1-console-armhf-2016-10-06.tar.xz
From the URL https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs you can look for newer versions too. This version is the one mentioned in the official documentation at http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu ...