Veranda is a two dimensional robot simulation ROS2 application. It is the default simulation program used by the Roboscience textbook.
Veranda is a ROS 2 application which means that you will need to have installed ROS 2. We currently only have a build for Ubuntu 16.04 and ROS2 Ardent.
Installation:
- ROS2 is a prerequisite (ROS2 wiki). Please follow the instructions provided by the ROS 2 development team: ROS2 Install
- Install (Ubuntu)
- Download the install script: install.sh (no special install location needed)
- Make the script executable. From the terminal: chmod +x install.sh
- Run the script under sudo: sudo ./install.sh
- This script will ask the following questions:
- Is ROS 2 installed and what is the location?
- What shell do you want to use?
- Where to download Veranda (temp location)?
- Where to extract?
- The script will install Veranda, setup paths and environment variables.
- This script will ask the following questions:
- From the command line type veranda . This should bring up the application.
Use: