Industrial Core

ROS-Industrial core communications packages. See the ROS wiki page for more information.

Contents

Branch naming follows the ROS distribution they are compatible with. -devel branches may be unstable. Releases are made from the distribution branches (hydro, indigo, jade, kinetic, lunar, melodic).

Older releases may be found in the old ROS-Industrial subversion repository.

Status

The packages in this repository are community supported. This means they do not get support from an OEM, nor from the ROS-Industrial consortia directly (see also the support level badge at the top of this page).

Maintenance and development is on a best-effort basis and depends on volunteers.

Installation

Binary packages are available for ROS Kinetic and ROS Melodic.

They can be installed using apt on Debian/Ubuntu.

Example

To install industrial_core on Ubuntu Bionic for ROS Melodic (after having followed the normal ROS Melodic installation tutorial):

sudo apt install ros-melodic-industrial-core

This would install all the packages in this repository (and all their dependencies).

Building

On newer (or older) versions of ROS

Building the packages on newer (or older) versions of ROS is in most cases possible and supported. For example: building the packages in this repository on Ubuntu Focal/ROS Noetic systems is supported. This will require creating a Catkin workspace, cloning this repository, installing all required dependencies and finally building the workspace.

Catkin tools

It is recommended to use catkin_tools instead of the default catkin when building ROS workspaces. catkin_tools provides a number of benefits over regular catkin_make and will be used in the instructions below. All packages can be built using catkin_make however: use catkin_make in place of catkin build where appropriate.

Building the packages

The following instructions assume that a Catkin workspace has been created at $HOME/catkin_ws and that the source space is at $HOME/catkin_ws/src. Update paths appropriately if they are different on the build machine.

These instructions build the melodic-devel branch on a ROS Melodic system:

# change to the root of the Catkin workspace
$ cd $HOME/catkin_ws

# retrieve the latest development version of industrial_core. If you'd rather
# use the latest released version, replace 'melodic-devel' with 'melodic'
$ git clone -b melodic-devel https://github.com/ros-industrial/industrial_core.git src/industrial_core

# check build dependencies. Note: this may install additional packages,
# depending on the software installed on the machine
$ rosdep update

# be sure to change 'melodic' to whichever ROS release you are using
$ rosdep install --from-paths src/ --ignore-src --rosdistro melodic

# build the workspace (using catkin_tools)
$ catkin build

Activating the workspace

Finally, activate the workspace to get access to the packages just built:

$ source $HOME/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash

At this point all packages should be usable (ie: roslaunch should be able to auto-complete package names starting with industrial_..). In case the workspace contains additional packages (ie: not from this repository), those should also still be available.

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