⚠️ Attention please: This package is no longer maintained!!!This is an old package that is no longer maintained. The new version of the UAV Core is located here. This repository will be erased soon
Required OS is Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64-bit or their flavors that can install ROS Noetic. The suggested variant of OS installation is dual boot instead of virtualization that can be slow and can not handle well the simulation GUI. We use Gitman to manage the repository submodules. The repository are supposed to be compiled by catkin tools.
The install.sh script will add the following to your .bashrc:
source /opt/ros/noetic/setup.bash
# source uav_core shell additions
source $HOME/git/uav_core/miscellaneous/shell_additions/shell_additions.sh
export UAV_NAME="uav1"
export NATO_NAME="" # lower-case name of the UAV frame {alpha, bravo, charlie, ...}
export UAV_MASS="3.0" # [kg], used only with real UAV
export RUN_TYPE="simulation" # {simulation, uav}
export UAV_TYPE="f550" # {f550, f450, t650, eagle, naki}
export PROPULSION_TYPE="default" # {default, new_esc, ...}
export ODOMETRY_TYPE="gps" # {gps, optflow, hector, vio, ...}
export INITIAL_DISTURBANCE_X="0.0" # [N], external disturbance in the body frame
export INITIAL_DISTURBANCE_Y="0.0" # [N], external disturbance in the body frame
export STANDALONE="false" # disables the core nodelete manager
export SWAP_GARMINS="false" # swap up/down garmins
export PIXGARM="false" # true if Garmin lidar is connected throught Pixhawk
export SENSORS="" # {garmin_down, garmin_up, rplidar, realsense_front, teraranger, bluefox_optflow, realsense_brick, bluefox_brick}
export WORLD_NAME="simulation" # e.g.: "simulation" <= mrs_general/config/world_simulation.yaml
export MRS_STATUS="readme" # {readme, dynamics, balloon, avoidance, control_error, gripper}
export LOGGER_DEBUG="false" # sets the ros console output level to debugOur shell additions
source $HOME/git/uav_core/miscellaneous/shell_additions/shell_additions.sh
provide some useful command line aliases (git, catkin, cd) and some neccessary shell functions (wait* commands for simulation).
All the environment variables define a particular configuration of a UAV (through launch files). The variables apply mostly to real hardware. They allow us to make the core universal without the need of hardcoding configurations for a particular UAV, but only for a UAV type. In a simulation, they are mostly overloaded in each tmuxinator session.
One of the features of our shell_additions.sh that might be intrusive is our cd alias.
Our cd is capable of automatically traversing from locations that have been symlinked somewhere, to the linked location.
This is especially useful if you (like us) clone git repositories under a specific location, e.g., ~/git/my_repository and then link them to catkin workspaces, e.g., ~/project2_workspace/src/my_repository.
When you call
cd ~/git/my_repositoryour alias will put you in
user@machine:~/project2_workspace/src/my_repository$A symlink map (stored in /tmp/symlink_array.sh) for all your workspaces is built automatically after boot (after the first start of the terminal) by a detached tmux session using the silversearcher-ag utility.
Only the workspaces in the environment variable
export ROS_WORKSPACES="~/mrs_workspace ~/modules_workspace ~/workspace ~/project2_workspace"are considered.
The ROS_WORKSPACES variable is added during the installation of MRS UAV system since that is where we set up the workspaces for you.