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Install MoveIt!

Aditya Gaddipati edited this page Jul 5, 2017 · 7 revisions

MoveIt! contains state of the art software for motion planning, manipulation, 3D perception, kinematics, collision checking, control, and navigation.

MoveIt! can be accessed using command-line interface, RViz GUI plugin and C++ or Python scripts. It also has a GUI to interface a new robot to MoveIt!.

Check the official web page of MoveIt! for the documentaion: http://moveit.ros.org/

We will start by installing MoveIt! package on ROS. This can be done with a single command line instruction. Here we will install MoveIt! for ROS Indigo. Open your terminal and type the following command:

sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-moveit-full