bitbots_meta

This git repository contains all RoboCup-related code and documentation from the Hamburg Bit-Bots team as git submodules. All code is written as ROS 2 packages for ROS 2 on Ubuntu.

Installation

Full step-by-step instructions for installing the Bit-Bots software stack and ROS 2 can be found in our documentation here.

To download the Bit-Bots software stack clone this repository.

git clone git@github.com:bit-bots/bitbots_meta.git

The meta repository mainly contains references (submodules) to other repositories for the different components of the codebase. Download them run the following commands.

cd bitbots_meta
make pull-init

Update the codebase

If you want to update all submodules, this repo, and supplementing files, run

make pull-all

Make sure you are on the correct branch and have no uncommitted changes in each submodule. To check this run

make status

Other scripts are available in the scripts folder, documented here.

Repository Structure

The naming prefix of submodules indicates the scope of the packages.

bitbots_ : specific RoboCup code of our team
humanoid_league_ : packages which are useful for all teams in the RoboCup Humanoid League, e.g. visualization tools and game controller
no prefix : packages which are useful in general and usable outside of RoboCup
lib : folder for third party libraries that need to be build from source

Documentation

Our documentation is hosted on docs.bit-bots.de.