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ROS packages for building wide intelligence project, University of Texas at Austin

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Kinetic: port code base to ROS Kinetic and Ubuntu Xenial #44

Closed jack-oquin closed 6 years ago

jack-oquin commented 8 years ago

This seems to work now. I am encouraging people to use the Kinetic branches for on-going activities.

The primary remaining task at this point is installing Xenial on every robot:

[x] bender
[x] calculon (arm robot)
[x] leela
[x] pickles
[x] roberto

jack-oquin commented 7 years ago

I'll use this issue for an overview, and open specific issues for the lower-level repositories:

[x] utexas-bwi/bwi_common#83
[x] utexas-bwi/segbot#77
[x] utexas-bwi/segbot_arm#50

jack-oquin commented 7 years ago

~~There is no intention of migrating from Trusty and Indigo any time soon.~~

The goal is to fix any problems so our source code works on both distributions. I expect that will be do-able. There is no requirement for the BWI project to support ROS Jade.

jack-oquin commented 6 years ago

With the commit above and some other fixes, it should now be possible to build a Kinetic version of the BWI software from source, using the instructions in the BWI README.md.

There are still lots of bugs to fix before things run cleanly, but this allows people to get started on fixing them much more easily than before.

jack-oquin commented 6 years ago

Simulation is now working with visit door list.

jack-oquin commented 6 years ago

The urgency of this project is higher now, due to the pending upgrade of the HSR project from Indigo to Kinetic.

Some useful side-effects are that both gazebo and clingo seem faster in this release.

jack-oquin commented 6 years ago

There has been much more testing, and things seem to be working reasonably well.

At this point, I am encouraging everyone to do their work on Xenial and Kinetic, so we can find and fix any other problems that may have crept in during the migration.

jack-oquin commented 6 years ago

I just created indigo branches for bwi, segbot, and bwi_common, and updated the rosinstall files to check them out for Indigo platforms. That is in anticipation of switching master to Kinetic some day soon.

jack-oquin commented 6 years ago

Most, but not all, of the changes in the kinetic branch could be back-ported to indigo, if needed. I doubt that would be worth the effort, since we are now able to keep moving forward with Kinetic.