installROS

Install Robot Operating System (ROS) Melodic on NVIDIA Jetson Developer Kits

These scripts will install Robot Operating System (ROS) Melodic on the NVIDIA Jetson Developer Kits.

Jetson Nano, Jetson AGX Xavier, Jetson Xavier NX, Jetson TX2, Jetson TX1

The script is based on the Ubuntu ARM install of ROS Melodic: http://wiki.ros.org/melodic/Installation/Ubuntu

Maintainer of ARM builds for ROS is http://answers.ros.org/users/1034/ahendrix/

There are two scripts:

installROS.sh

Usage: ./installROS.sh  [[-p package] | [-h]]
 -p | --package <packagename>  ROS package to install
                               Multiple Usage allowed
                               The first package should be a base package. One of the following:
                                 ros-melodic-ros-base
                                 ros-melodic-desktop
                                 ros-melodic-desktop-full
 

Default is ros-melodic-ros-base if no packages are specified.

Example Usage:

$ ./installROS.sh -p ros-melodic-desktop -p ros-melodic-rgbd-launch

This script installs a baseline ROS environment. There are several tasks:

• Enable repositories universe, multiverse, and restricted
• Adds the ROS sources list
• Sets the needed keys
• Loads specified ROS packages, defaults to ros-melodic-base-ros if none specified
• Initializes rosdep
• Sets up ROS_MASTER_URI and ROS_IP in the ~/.bashrc file

Note: You will need to check your ~/.bashrc file to make sure the ROS_MASTER_URI and ROS_IP are setup correctly for your environment. During configuration, a best guess is made which should be considered a placeholder.

You can edit this file to add the ROS packages for your application.

setupCatkinWorkspace.sh Usage:

$ ./setupCatkinWorkspace.sh [_optionalWorkspaceName_]

where optionalWorkspaceName is the name and path of the workspace to be used. The default workspace name is ~/catkin_ws.

Release Notes

September 2021

• v1.1
• Tested on L4T 32.6.1 (JetPack 4.6)
• Update ROS GPG Key
• Setup ROS_IP more intelligently
• Setup ROS_MASTER_URI and ROS_IP in installROS script instead of setupCatkinWorkspace
• Script wrangling and cleanup
• Thank you @hweizh for suggested ROS Key change!

January 2020

• v1.0
• Tested on L4T 32.3.1 (JetPack 4.3)

License

MIT License

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