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/main/robots/LoCoBot/install/locobot_install_all.sh' > locobot_install_all.sh

• Run the script to install everything (ROS, realsense driver, etc.).

If you want to use real LoCoBot robot, please run the following command: Please connect the nuc machine to a realsense camera before running the following commands.

#-t Decides the type of installation. Available Options: full or sim_only
#-p Decides the python version for pyRobot. Available Options: 2 or 3
#-l Decides the type of LoCoBot hardware platform. Available Options: cmu or interbotix
chmod +x locobot_install_all.sh
./locobot_install_all.sh -t full -p 2 -l interbotix

If you want to use simulated LoCoBot in Gazebo only, please run the following commands instead:

#-t Decides the type of installation. Available Options: full or sim_only
#-p Decides the python version for pyRobot. Available Options: 2 or 3
#-l Decides the type of LoCoBot hardware platform. Available Options: cmu or interbotix
chmod +x locobot_install_all.sh
./locobot_install_all.sh -t sim_only -p 2 -l interbotix

Note: To install Python 3 compatible PyRobot, modify -p 2 to -p 3 in the above commands.

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 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/
  chmod +x install_pyrobot.sh
  ./install_pyrobot.sh -p 2  #For python3, modify the argumet to -p 3