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[–] hlfshell 2 points 1 year ago

Last week I started going through ROS2 lessons online in order to familiarize myself on it for some upcoming projects.

First I spent time working on utilizing vagrant, a tool by Hashicorp for building "repeatable" (debatable overuse of that term, but I'll digress) dev environments and VM images to quickly set up versioned ROS environments for me. This was actually pretty easy and after a few hours I had a setup I liked. I will report that I do have some issues running Gazebo in VM on the laptop (to be expected) though it's smooth on the beefier desktop. I am still suffering from occasional complete VM freeze ups - irrecoverable, though the host machine shows no lag or issues there. I think it'll still work for a quick setup of ROS2 for a project team.

Now I'm going through the nav2 stack in ROS and trying to familiarize myself with it. I'm not sure what the scope of the upcoming project is going to be (it's the capstone team project for the entirety of my Masters, so there's a bit of time before decisions have to be finalized). Once that's done I'll probably dive into Webots simulator (especially since my own Gazebo is proving unstable).