README.md

marti_common

This repository provides various utility packages created at Southwest Reseach Institute's Intelligent Vehicle Systems section for working with Robot Operating System(ROS).

Installation (ROS Indigo, Kinetic, Lunar, Melodic)

If you have installed ROS Indigo, Kinetic, Lunar, or Melodic, you can install any of the packages in this repository with apt-get:

sudo apt-get install ros-${ROS_DISTRO}-<package>

Building From Source (ROS Indigo, Kinetic, Lunar, Melodic)

These directions assume you have already set up a catkin workspace and rosdep. See this tutorial on the ROS Wiki for help setting up a catkin workspace and the rosdep documentation on the ROS wiki for help setting up rosdep.

1. Check out the source code

   a. If you use wstool:

   wstool set marti_common --git https://github.com/swri-robotics/marti_common.git
   wstool update marti_common

   b. Using plain git:

   git clone https://github.com/swri-robotics/marti_common.git

2. Install dependencies:

   # (In the root of this repository)
   rosdep install --from-paths . --ignore-src

3. Build

   a. If you use catkin tools:

   catkin build

   b. Using plain catkin:

   catkin_make