ROS support for VOXL2

Jeff Delaune

Hello,

I received a VOXL2 that shipped as is (output of the voxl-version command):

system-image: 1.2.1-M0054-14.1a-perf

kernel: #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 18 20:36:27 UTC 2022 4.19.125

hw version: M0054

voxl-suite: 0.6.0

The ROS setup instructions found on https://docs.modalai.com/setup-ros-on-voxl/ don't seem to apply to this platform release: no /home/root/my_ros_env.sh script, no setup.sh script in /opt/ros/melodic.

Am I missing something?
Can you share the instructions for me to run ROS on this platform release?
Or should I upgrade to a newer one?

Thanks,
Jeff

Hi Jeff,

Those instructions are custom for the original voxl platform because it's using a very custom system image with ros embedded. The voxl2 system image is built on a standard ubuntu 18.04 image and so you can follow any standard instructions from the ROS docs for ubuntu 18.04 to install and configure ROS(or ROS2) on voxl2.

Jeff Delaune

Thank you Alex!