1. Software Installation
The controlling computer is where the user will input the goals for the robot. Check your computer’s architecture using “lsb_release -a” and “uname -m”. Voidmotion is only built for the following architectures:
Gazebo Server
Physical Robot Server
Controlling Client
Machine Settings
- Cores: 2 for primary boot or 4 for VM
- RAM: 8GB
- Virtualbox 3D Acceleration: To speed up Gazebo for Virtualbox, in Display, graphics controller is VMSVGA and Enable 3D Acceleration is checked.
- WiFi: For Virtualbox, in Network, use Bridged Adapter and find your wireless card
- (optional) Increase Screen Size: For Virtualbox, Files > VBox_GAs… > Run Software
- (optional) Clipboard: For Virtualbox, run “sudo /usr/bin/VBoxClient –clipboard”
Other
- Voidmotion will not work on a primary boot Ubuntu 18.04 due to some ROS packages that aren’t ported yet.