Robot Operating System (ROS)

An Ansible Role that installs ROS (Robot Operating System) on Ubuntu. 🤖

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

 ros_keyserver: hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80              # Retrieved from ROS Installation instructions
 ros_key_id: C1CF6E31E6BADE8868B172B4F42ED6FBAB17C654      # Retrieved from ROS Installation instructions
 ros_repository_url: http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu    # Retrieved from ROS Installation instructions

 ros_distribution: noetic     # noetic OR melodic OR kinetic (automatically discoverable according to Ubuntu version)
 ros_configuration: ros-base   # desktop-full OR desktop OR ros-base

 ros_user:                     # Default username and group for ROS workspace installation
     name: ubuntu
     group: ubuntu

 ros_workspaces:               # ROS workspaces directories and builders definition
     catkin_ws: catkin_make    # ROS workspace directory : catkin_make OR catkin_tools OR colcon
     # ros_ws: caktin_tools
     # colcon_ws: colcon

 ros_packages:                 # List of ROS packages to be installed without ros-<distro> prefix

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

Example to install ROS desktop-full configuration with rosbridge-server on the host system with a custom (existing) username:

- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  become: true
  vars:
    ros_user:
        name: rarrais
        group: rarrais
    ros_configuration: desktop-full
    ros_packages:
      - rosbridge-server
  roles:
    - rarrais.ros

License

MIT

Author Information

This role was created in 2019 by Rafael Arrais.