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Installing ROS on Radxa Rock

Radxa Rock is a quad core ARM computer based on the Rockchip RK3188 cpu. It has 80 2.54mm extension header, making it a good hardware for Robotic applications.

The steps below allows you to install ROS Hydro on radxa rock quite easily. This could only be done with the help of the ROS "Ubuntu ARM" binaries infrastructure already put in place by Austin Hendrix http://wiki.ros.org/hydro/Installation/UbuntuARM .

Please note that this is still experimental an install, report any bugs or issues you encounter.

Install the release image

Radxa has provided Ubuntu based images to install on the internal NAND flash. We will install it as a base system and install ROS on it.

Requirements

Steps

sudo upgrade_tool uf radxa_rock_ubuntu_server_140315_update.img 
Loading firmware...
Support Type:RK31       FW Ver:1.0.00   FW Time:2014-03-15 11:53:56
Loader ver:2.08 Loader Time:2013-12-02 18:58:57
Upgrade firmware ok.

Now you have the basic Ubuntu server installed on RR. Power on the RR and SSH to it or log in via the serial console. The default password for user root is root.

Install ROS

Setup the ROS source list

Set up your keys

Installation

First, make sure your Debian package index is up-to-date:

There are many different libraries and tools in ROS. Most of the default configurations do not yet compile fully on ARM. You can also install ROS packages individually.

To find available packages, use:

apt-cache search ros-hydro

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