ROS environment setup

Raspberry Pi version:

The Raspberry Pi version comes with Ubuntu (V-20.04) system and built-in development environment. No setup and management is required. Just update the mycobot_ros package.

mycobot_ros is a ROS1 package for the mycobot series of desktop six-axis robotic arms launched by Elephant Robotics.

ROS1 project address: http://github.com/elephantrobotics/mycobot_ros

Robot arm API driver library address: https://github.com/elephantrobotics/pymycobot

Update mycobot_ros package

To ensure that users can use the latest official package in a timely manner, you can go to the /home/er/catkin_ws/src folder through the file manager, open the console terminal (shortcut Ctrl+Alt+T), and enter the following command to update:

# Clone the code on github
cd ~/catkin_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/elephantrobotics/mycobot_ros.git # Before deciding whether to execute this command, please check the following note
cd .. # Return to the workspace
catkin_make # Build the code in the workspace
source devel/setup.bash # Add environment variables

Note: If the mycobot_ros folder already exists in the /home/er/catkin_ws/src (equivalent to ~/catkin_ws/src) directory, you need to delete the original mycobot_ros first, and then execute the above command. Among them, er in the directory path is the system user name. If there is any inconsistency, please modify it.

At this point, the ROS1 environment is set up.