Clone Dave Repositories

Dave repositories

Project Dave consists of this repository along with other UUV components available online. Although some of the UUV components are available as packages, we recommend that you download them from source and work with them in your own uuv_ws ROS workspace so that you can modify your work.

Clone Dave

Clone this repository and other relevant repositories provided under Field-Robotics-Lab:

mkdir -p ~/uuv_ws/src
cd ~/uuv_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/Field-Robotics-Lab/dave.git

Use vcs to clone source dependencies

If not already installed - install vcstool.

Use vcs to read the input file and clone required dependencies

cd ~/uuv_ws/src
vcs import --skip-existing --input dave/extras/repos/dave_sim.repos .

OPTIONAL: GPU Multibeam sonar

- DO NOT INCLUDE THIS if you are not using multibeam sonar.
- It require CUDA Library and NVIDIA driver along with the NVIDIA graphics card that supports CUDA feature.

For instructions and plugin details : Multibeam Forward-Looking Sonar

cd ~/uuv_ws/src
vcs import --skip-existing --input dave/extras/repos/multibeam_sim.repos .

Step 3: Build the Dave Simulation Environment