The following has been tested on native (non-VM) Ubuntu systems using X11 (the default). Please see these ROS pages for more resources.
If you just want to try out the astrobee simulator, you can use one of the Docker images in the Github Container Registry.
Make sure you have Docker installed in your Ubuntu system following the installation instructions and post-installation steps for Linux.
For some systems (with discrete graphics cards), you may need to install additional software.
git clone https://github.com/nasa/astrobee.git
cd astrobee
./scripts/docker/run.sh --remoteThere are different ways to build and test the code.
If you are a non-NASA user the preferred supported method is to use Ubuntu 16 and ROS kinetic. Ubuntu 18 and ROS melodic instructions are included, but not officially supported. This method does not require VPN access.
\subpage install-nonNASA
If you are a NASA user and want to install the cross-compiler for robot testing follow these instructions:
\subpage install-NASA
Docker builds are available for Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04 and 20.04.
Instructions on how to build the images natively and run the containers are in:
\subpage install-docker