Setup

These setup instructions assume that you have already added the Robotic Vision repositories

Requirements

Installing ROS

Follow the installation instructions provided for ROS Melodic.

Note: We recommend installing either the desktop or desktop-full distribution

Setting up the Real-Time Kernel

To install the real-time kernel run the following command:

sudo apt install linux-image-5.4.13-rt7 linux-headers-5.4.13-rt7

Add the user to the realtime group

sudo addgroup realtime
sudo usermod -a -G realtime $(whoami)

Add the following limits to the realtime group in /etc/security/limits.conf

@realtime soft rtprio 99
@realtime soft priority 99
@realtime soft memlock 102400
@realtime hard rtprio 99
@realtime hard priority 99
@realtime hard memlock 102400

Reboot your machine then run the following command to make sure that you are using the RT kernel.

uname -a

The output of the command should contain 5.0.21-rt16 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT

Installing the RV Panda Driver

Install the RV Panda Driver by running the command:

sudo apt install ros-melodic-rv-panda-driver