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Installation

LGDXRobot2 ROS 2 can be installed using package manager. The packages are available for both AMD64 and ARM64 architectures. However, only ROS 2 Jazzy (Ubuntu 24.04) is supported.

Permission Configuration

To allow access to hardware devices without root permissions, the lgdxrobot2-udev package needs to be installed. This installation is included in the steps below.

Installation

  1. Install ROS 2 Jazzy
  2. The packages are hosted in a self-hosted repository, install this package to add the repository and the public key.
wget -q http://packages.bristolgram.uk/lgdxrobotics-apt-source.deb
sudo dpkg -i lgdxrobotics-apt-source.deb
sudo apt update
  1. Install the packages. This will also install the required dependencies, including the Nav2 stack.
sudo apt install lgdxrobot2-udev \
  ros-${ROS_DISTRO}-sllidar-ros2 \
  ros-${ROS_DISTRO}-lgdxrobot2-*
  1. Optionally, install the simulation package for Webots.
sudo apt install ros-${ROS_DISTRO}-lgdxrobot2sim-webots

Do not install rplidar_ros, as it appears to be out of date.