Movelt Environment Installation#
MoveIt is composed of a series of function packages in ROS (robot operating system), mainly including motion planning, operation control, 3D perception, kinematics, collision detection, etc. At present, it has been widely used in industry, business, research and development and other fields, and is one of the most popular function packages under ROS. MoveIt also offers a range of proven plugins and tools to enable rapid configuration of robot control; And encapsulates a large number of apis, convenient users in MoveIt! Secondary development on the module. MoveIt supports both source and binary installation. Binary installation is recommended if not necessary. For detailed installation instructions, visit the official documentation of MoveIt. It should be noted that there are corresponding versions of MoveIt for different ROS versions, and users need to confirm and match them when installing. The following is a brief description of the installation steps:
Step 1: Open the terminal
Step 2: Enter in the terminal
rosdep update
Step 3: Enter in the terminal
sudo apt-get update
Step 4: Enter in the terminal
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Step 5: Enter in the terminal
sudo apt-get install ros-melodic-catkin python-catkin-tools