Installing the Research SDK - RethinkRobotics/sdk-docs GitHub Wiki

• A developer workstation meeting the minimum system requirements is available for use.
• The developer workstation has been set up successfully with Ubuntu and ROS - instructions here.
• You have configured your Development Workstation to access Github. Instructions here.

• You have installed the Rethink RSDK on the Development Workstation.

$ sudo apt-get install python-wstool python-rosdep

$ mkdir -p ~/ros_ws/src
$ cd ~/ros_ws/src

$ wstool init .
$ wstool merge https://raw.github.com/RethinkRobotics/baxter/master/baxter_sdk.rosinstall
$ wstool update
$ cd ..

This pulls down the development branches from all of our repositories into your source directory.

$ source /opt/ros/groovy/setup.bash

$ catkin_make
$ catkin_make install

$ cp src/baxter/baxter.sh .

# Specify Baxter's hostname
**baxter_hostname="baxter_hostname.local"**

# Set *Either* your computers ip address or hostname. Please note if using
# your_hostname that this must be resolvable to Baxter.
**your_ip="192.168.XXX.XXX"**
#your_hostname="my_computer.local"

Where 'baxter_hostname' is the hostname of your robot and 'your_ip' is the ip address of your development workstation. You may alternatively choose to use the hostname of your development machine but only if baxter can resolve the development machine hostname. Using both ip and hostname is not allowed so pick one method or the other and comment out the other line in the script using the '#' as leading character.

$ ./baxter.sh

Baxter Research Robot Hardware Installation Guide