Installing the robot software

PyRobot 0.0.1 is currently only supported on Ubuntu 16.04.

Installing both PyRobot and LoCoBot

• Install Ubuntu 16.04

• Download the installation script

sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install curl
curl 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/facebookresearch/pyrobot/master/robots/LoCoBot/install/locobot_install_all.sh' > locobot_install_all.sh

• Run the script to install everything (ROS, realsense driver, etc.). Please connect the NUC machine to a realsense camera before running the following commands.

chmod +x locobot_install_all.sh 
./locobot_install_all.sh

Installing just PyRobot

If you have done the steps above, you don't need to run the steps below.

• Install Ubuntu 16.04

• Install ROS kinetic

• Install KDL

sudo apt-get -y install ros-kinetic-orocos-kdl ros-kinetic-kdl-parser-py ros-kinetic-python-orocos-kdl ros-kinetic-trac-ik

• Install Python virtual environment

sudo apt-get -y install python-virtualenv
virtualenv_name="pyenv_pyrobot"
VIRTUALENV_FOLDER=~/${virtualenv_name}
virtualenv --system-site-packages -p python2.7 $VIRTUALENV_FOLDER

• Install PyRobot

cd ~
mkdir -p low_cost_ws/src
cd ~/low_cost_ws/src
source ~/${virtualenv_name}/bin/activate
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/facebookresearch/pyrobot.git
cd pyrobot
pip install .