sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y \
                arduino \
                ros-kinetic-rosserial-arduino \
                ros-kinetic-rosserial
cd ~/sketchbook/libraries
mv ros_lib ~/ros_lib_backup
rosrun rosserial_arduino make_libraries.py ~/sketchbook/libraries

make_libraries.py might raise an error about tf. The error hasn't affected my applications.

The above script is from the official instructions but with "indigo" replaced with "kinetic".

I've only done this with Ubuntu 16.04.

Comments

Hi. I did everything but it did not work for me. I didnt get an error but I couldn't see ros_lib on examples. but it creates a ros_lib in the sketchbook/libraries. I changed libraries folder and I fixed it like that :

sudo mv ~/sketchbook/libraries/ros_lib /usr/share/arduino/libraries/

Asked by girayuzun on 2017-03-14 17:04:23 UTC

My solution for Ubuntu 16.04, ROS Kinetic, Arduino 1.8.5:

$ sudo apt-get update

Install newest version of Arduino from: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Linux , download page : https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software .

ROS and Arduino Compatibility:

$ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-rosserial-arduino
$ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-rosserial

To Install the ros_lib library in my Arduino folder which was built automatically (you may know it as /sketchbook):

$ cd Arduino/libraries/
$ rosrun rosserial_arduino make_libraries.py .

space . is VERY important in the line above

now should have a newly built folder called ros_lib in that directory. You could also validate it by navigating through Arduino IDE:

Open Arduino IDE: File -> Examples -> ros_lib

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The whole process is described in a sequence of tutorials at Wiki ROS.

Asked by matheusns on 2018-05-09 11:26:56 UTC