Move to using ROS Noetic

[rickstaa]

It would be nice if we move to ROS Noetic to get rid of the very extensive install instructions. There are however some packages that still are blocking this transition.

ROS noetic transition list

• franka_ros
  • franka_control
  • franka_description
  • franka_example_controllers - Depends on panda_moveit_config which is not released yet (see franka_ros/issues/123)
  • franka_gripper
  • franka_hw
  • franka_msgs
  • franka_ros - Also depends on panda_moveit_config which is not released yet (see franka_ros/issues/123)
  • franka_visualization
• gazebo_panda_gym - Compatible with ROS noetic if end effector control is removed.
• Openai_ros - Can be removed as it was only added as a reference.
• panda_moveit_config - Not yet compatible with ROS noetic (see panda_moveit_config/issues/77. ❌
• panda_openai_sim - Should be compatible with ROS Noetic when we do the following:
  • Remove the end effector control. This needs to be done since this requires the
• panda_simulation - Should be compatible with ROS Noetic when we do the following:
  • Remove the end effector control. Because it depends on panda_moveit_config.
  • Move from tf to tf2.
• panda_training - No problem already written in python3
• theconstruct_msgs - Compatible with noetic. We however could get rid of this package and add the message to our own package Include the_construct_msgs in package  #38.

[rickstaa]

@panweihit moveit/panda_moveit_config#77 has just been released so transferring to Noetic is possible now.