Installation

Binary packages

synchros2 is released to LTS ROS 2 distributions like Humble (and soon enough Jazzy too), so you can install it from binaries in Tier 1 platforms. In Ubuntu:

sudo apt install ros-$ROS_DISTRO-synchros2

Note: make sure to setup ROS 2 apt sources if you haven’t before attempting to install ROS 2 debians!

Building from source

synchros2 can also be built from source.

Prerequisites

1. Configure a ROS2 environment

2. Create a ROS2 workspace

Note: the links above are to Humble tutorials but should be largely the same for any modern ROS 2 distribution.

Build synchros2

1. Clone synchros2 into a colcon workspace:

   mkdir -p path/to/workspace/src  # for a new workspace
   cd path/to/workspace/src
   git clone https://github.com/bdaiinstitute/synchros2.git
   

2. Install synchros2 dependencies with rosdep:

   cd path/to/workspace
   rosdep install -y -i --from-path src
   

3. Build and source the colcon workspace:

   cd path/to/workspace
   colcon build --symlink-install
   source install/setup.bash