UPenn Bird Recording project root repository

This repository contains the relevant ros packages as submodules. Tested on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / ROS kinetic.

Maintainer: Bernd Pfrommer ([email protected])

Installation

Prerequisite: working installation of ROS kinetic (http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic/Installation/Ubuntu). If this is a new user, don't forget to run "rosdep update" and update the .bashrc file.

If you have never used ROS before on this machine, do this:

rosdep update
echo "source /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Install GTSAM from the ppa:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bernd-pfrommer/gtsam
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gtsam

You may also need the catkin build command, and gstreamer for audio recording:

sudo apt install python-catkin-tools
sudo apt install libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev
sudo apt install libfftw3-dev

Download and compile all bird code:

cd Documents
git clone https://github.com/daniilidis-group/birds.git
cd birds
./update_submodules.bash
catkin config -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
catkin build -c

On Ubuntu 16.04, you will likely get an error for the ffmpeg_image_transport package. That is because the version of FFMPeg is outdated, so you need to build your own version for it.

Using

Overlay the ros packages:

cd ~/Documents/birds
. devel/setup.bash
roscd bird_recording/launch

and see the bird_recording package for further instructions