Dockerfiles for the Surgical Robotics Challenge

Note:

These dockerfiles can be used to create Docker images that contain the correct ROS install, the surgical robotics challenge and the necessary AMBF ROS msgs, and the Python Client.

The Docker containers created from the Docker images can then be used to communicate with the Surgical Scene running in AMBF on the host machine.

Steps:

Please install Docker based on the official instructions: Afterward, depending upon which Ubuntu / ROS is preferred (Ubuntu 20.04 with ROS Noetic OR Ubuntu 18.04 with ROS melodic), build the image using the correct Dockerfile.

E.g.

cd docker_surgical_robotics_challenge/noetic
docker build -t collaborativerobotics/ros-ambf-surg-challenge:noetic .

Once built, the Docker container can be created with the --network host argument to share the host network for ROS.

docker run -it --name surg_challenge --network host collaborativerobotics/ros-ambf-surg-challenge:noetic bash

To access the running container from a new terminal:

docker exec -it surg_challenge bash