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Running ROS + Gazebo on Raspberry Pi

asked 2020-01-29 10:42:55 -0500

pitosalas gravatar image

I know that in principle it should work. Run linux on the Pi, connect a screen, keyboard and mouse, install ROS and Gazebo and it should work.

But I have not tried it myself. Specifically running ros and Gazebo at the same time to make the Raspi a viable albeit low power development platform for ROS.

Have you tried it, and if so could you share what you used?

  • model Raspi
  • OS installed
  • ROS version

What was your experience?

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I'm pretty sure you can run it because they do have binaries within Ubuntu repositories for arm. I'm not sure how the performance will be though. Maybe a raspberry pi 4 would be a good option instead of a RPI3.

zmk5 gravatar image zmk5  ( 2020-01-29 11:58:13 -0500 )edit

I have tried runing ROS Noetic on RPi3 B+ with Ubuntu mate 20.04 and things did't go well at all, i suffered from huge laggs and most of the times my RPi gets stuck and freezes due to the huge load. I also tried runing ROS Melodic on the same Pi, and the same thing happened.

My advice to you is that you use RPi 4 with at least 4Gb of RAM, because i've seen a lot a people on the intrernet using it with ROS Noetic, Gazebo and rviz.

Celebrimbor gravatar image Celebrimbor  ( 2021-06-22 07:36:26 -0500 )edit

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answered 2021-06-24 10:36:05 -0500

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It works. I have done it. I am running Noetic on Ubuntu 20.04 Server on a Raspberry Pi 3+. It took many tries but I finally got it working. Run as few nodes as possible on the Pi and offload most of it to a connected computer.

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That's awesome, have you tried ROS2 by any chance?

kk2105 gravatar image kk2105  ( 2021-06-24 11:25:24 -0500 )edit

Hi can you help me to do that i have a raspberry pi 4 and i install Ubuntu 20.04 on it . i install desktop for Ubuntu. i can install ROS1-Noetic but i can not install gazebo. can you explain what did you do step by step. thanks a lot

SANA gravatar image SANA  ( 2022-04-30 12:40:36 -0500 )edit

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