Setup on racecar hardware

as installed on 2021-01-19

Fresh intall

Flash fresh OS with nvidia Jetpack
Flash modified OS with Orbitty Carrier Board drivers
Configure WLAN to connect to racetrack automatically
Configure eth0 for LIDAR: static 192.168.0.15/24 (LIDAR IP: 192.168.0.10)
Install ROS Melodic
apt-get install ros-melodic-driver-common ros-melodic-laser-proc ros-melodic-urg-c screen mc nano cmatrix python3-pip
pip3 install rosdep rospkg
Install udev-rules (10-racecar.rules)
add user to docker and dailout group

Very often needed:

sudo apt-get install ros-melodic-tf2-geometry-msgs ros-melodic-ackermann-msgs ros-melodic-joy ros-melodic-map-server

Adjustments after cloning one car to another

change hostname (/etc/hostname)
change Interface/Mac on eth0 for LIDAR (GUI network manager)
update IP in ~/.bashrc (adjust the IP below for the specific car):

export ROS_MASTER_URI=http://192.168.1.103:11311 export ROS_HOSTNAME=192.168.1.103 export ROS_IP=192.168.1.103

Notes for testing

jstest /dev/