Drone Software Development Environment

Drone Software Development Environment

This is executed at your Workstation

Please make sure to execute all the steps found under this page and under the following pages as part of Drone Software Development Environment:

• PX4

• JMAVSim

• Ardupilot

• SITL Simulator

• DroneKit SITL

• QGroundControl

• MAVLink

• OpenCV

• Git Source Code Management

Common Setup

Sudoers

In case you are not "Sudoer"

user@workstation:~$ sudo adduser <user> sudo
user@workstation:~$ sudo usermod -a -G sudo <user>

user@workstation:~$ sudo nano /etc/sudoers
...
user    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
...

Packages

user@workstation:~$ sudo apt update
user@workstation:~$ sudo apt upgrade
user@workstation:~$ sudo apt install git
user@workstation:~$ sudo apt install unzip
user@workstation:~$ sudo apt install build-essential

Packages :: Pip

user@workstation:~$ sudo apt install python-pip --upgrade
user@workstation:~$ pip install --upgrade pip
user@workstation:~$ sudo pip install virtualenv virtualenvwrapper
user@workstation:~$ sudo rm -rf ~/.cache/pip
user@workstation:~$ nano ~/.bashrc
# virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper
export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
user@workstation:~$ source ~/.bashrc
user@workstation:~$ mkvirtualenv cv -p python3
(cv) user@workstation:~$ exit