Requirements

Before starting to work with virtual robots, you need these requirments on your system:

Installation

Important:

Please note that in case you are using cloud based simulation services like The Construct Sim or AWS RoboMaker, You can skip this part and proceed to the Getting Started Page.

Download and Install Ubuntu on your PC
- Dowload the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Desktop image.
- Install the Ubuntu 20.04 on your PC by the following instruction from this link .

Install ROS 2 foxy version

Open a terminal console with Ctrl+Alt+T and enter the following commands one at a time.

 sudo apt update && sudo apt install curl gnupg2 lsb-release
 sudo curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/ros.key  -o /usr/share/keyrings/ros-archive-keyring.gpg
 echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/ros-archive-keyring.gpg] http://packages.ros.org/ros2/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros2.list > /dev/null
 sudo sed -i -e 's/ubuntu .* main/ubuntu focal main/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros2.list

If the above installation fails, please refer to the official ROS2 Foxy installation guide.

Install Dependent ROS 2 Packages

Open the terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T from Remote PC.

Install Base Packages

 sudo apt update
 sudo apt install ros-foxy-desktop
 sudo apt install ros-foxy-ros-base

Install Gazebo11

 sudo apt-get install ros-foxy-gazebo-*

Install Cartographer

 sudo apt install ros-foxy-cartographer
 sudo apt install ros-foxy-cartographer-ros

Install Navigation 2

 sudo apt install ros-foxy-navigation2
 sudo apt install ros-foxy-nav2-bringup

Add sourcing to your shell startup script by sourcing the setup.bash file
```
 echo "source /opt/ros/foxy/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc
```