APEX AD10 ROS Installation and Use#

Install ROS2 Humble#

Set locale#

locale  # check for UTF-8
 
sudo apt update && sudo apt install locales
sudo locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8
sudo update-locale LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 
locale  # verify settings

Install dependencies#

sudo apt update && sudo apt install gnupg wget
sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository universe

Set up the APT source#

sudo apt update && sudo apt install curl -y
 
sudo curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/ros.key -o /usr/share/keyrings/ros-archive-keyring.gpg
 
echo ”deb [arch=$(dpkg –print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/ros-archive-keyring.gpg] http://packages.ros.org/ros2/ubuntu $(. /etc/os-release && echo $UBUNTU_CODENAME) main” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros2.list > /dev/null

Install ROS2 packages#

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install ros-humble-desktop

Verify whether ROS2 is installed successfully#

source /opt/ros/humble/setup.bash
ros2 run rviz2 rviz2

When you enter the above command, a pop-up window as shown in the figure below will appear. Congratulations! You have successfully installed ROS2 Humble.