Running Ros2 on an ESP32

By Dan Aukes

Virtualbox guest master setup

  1. create a virtual machine

    1. Networking: Select bridged networking

  2. install ubuntu 22.04 server edition

  3. update and upgrade

  4. remove firefox and snapd

  5. install helpful tools

    sudo apt install net-tools

  6. install ubuntu-desktop-minimal

    sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop-minimal

  7. install vm guest additions prerequisites

    sudo apt install -y gcc make perl

  8. install vm guest additions

    1. go to virtualbox menu and select “install guest additions”
    2. navigate to the cdrom and run autorun.sh

  9. restart

  10. Install ROS2

    sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt update && sudo apt install curl -y
sudo curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/ros.key -o /usr/share/keyrings/ros-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/ros-archive-keyring.gpg] http://packages.ros.org/ros2/ubuntu $(. /etc/os-release && echo $UBUNTU_CODENAME) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros2.list > /dev/null
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install ros-humble-desktop ros-dev-tools

  11. install cyclone-dds

    sudo apt install ros-humble-rmw-cyclonedds-cpp

  12. add configuration info to .bashrc:

    echo "source /opt/ros/humble/setup.bash" >> .bashrc
echo "RMW_IMPLEMENTATION=rmw_cyclonedds_cpp" >> .bashrc

  13. install ros-bridge server

    sudo apt install ros-humble-rosbridge-server

  14. launch rosbridge

    ros2 launch rosbridge_server rosbridge_websocket_launch.xml

  15. Publish something using rosbridge

  16. echo it in ROS

    ros2 topic list 
ros2 topic echo /hadabot/log/info

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