ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

Installing fovis

Since fovis is not provided as a Debian package, you must build it in your catkin workspace (use the same workspace as you used for chapter5_tutorials). Proceed with the following commands within any workspace:

    $ cdsrc
    $ git clone https://github.com/srv/libfovis.git
    $ git clone https://github.com/srv/fovis.git
    $ cd ..
    $ catkin_make  

This clones two repositories that allow us to have the fovis software integrated in ROS. Note that the original code is hosted on this Google Code Project at http://fovis.github.io/.

Once this has been built successfully, set up the environment for this workspace before using the software:

    $ sourcedevel/setup.bash