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Software Setup

Dustin Crossman edited this page Feb 27, 2017 · 4 revisions

Software Required

VRPN

To obtain the VRPN library required for ROS please run:

sudo apt-get install ros-[ros_distro]-vrpn

replacing [ros_distro] with your installed ROS distribution (indigo, kinetic, etc).

VRPN Client

To obtain the VRPN client code clone the vrpn_client_ros package and place it into your ROS workspace.

cd my_ros_workspace/
git clone [email protected]:IRLL/vrpn_client_ros.git

Then make sure it is built by running catkin_make from within your ROS workspace.

Optitrack Utilities

A set of utilities for working with the ROS output of the VRPN client can be obtained using the following:

git clone [email protected]:IRLL/optitrack.git

This code does not have to be placed in your ROS workspace.

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