rpk

A tool to generate skeletons of robot applications, mission controllers, tasks and skills.

Relies on ROS 2 and the ROS 2 Intents interface.

Installation

rpk is written in python3.

Installation with pip

pip install rpk

Installation from source with pip

You require the following libraries:

pip install jinja2

You can install rpk as any other python package as follows:

pip install .

If the location where it is installed is not yet on your path, you will get a warning which includes the path location where it has been installed. You need to add this location to your path, e.g., in linux export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" or in windows use the GUI or command line

Installation with ROS debian (only availabe in PAL Robotics docker images/robots)

sudo apt install pal-alum-rpk

The re-source /opt/pal/alum/setup.bash: source /opt/pal/alum/setup.bash

Building your first rpk

Once you have installed rpk, you are ready to create new applications for your robots. To do so, you just have to run:

rpk create

... and follow the instructions!

It will create a ROS2 package ready to be run.

You're then ready to play with the application controller. Visit the PAL SDK documentation for further information.