installation

Installation:

In order to install the Lizi package please follow the following steps:

1. Install Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit - please refer this link for download and installation instructions. If your computer already runs ubuntu 16.04 you can skip this step.

2. Install ROS Kinetic (Desktop-Full Install) - please refer this link for installation instructions. If you already have ROS Kinetic you can skip this step.

3. Install and configure your ROS environment - please refer this link for instructions. If you already have a workspace and a configured environment you can skip this step.

4. download the latest release from here, and run the following commands for stand-alone PC:

  $ cd ~/Downloads
  $ tar -zxvf lizi-1.0.0.tar.gz
  $ mv lizi-1.0.0 ~/catkin_ws/src/lizi
  $ rm lizi-1.0.0.tar.gz  
  $ cd ~/catkin_ws/src/lizi/lizi
  $ ./setup.sh

or, if installing for lizi robot (real hardware), use hw argument:

  $ ./setup.sh hw

• If installed on lizi robot, reboot after installation.

• If no errors occurred during setup, a success message will be printed.

• If you wish to use the Gazebo simulator, we recommend to download additional gazebo models from here. Uncompress the file and copy all of it's content to: ~/.gazebo/models directory. This step is mandatory for running our demos.

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