hector_quadrotor installation problems in ROS melodic

[deBilla]

Package cannot be found when sudo apt-get install ros-melodic-hector-quadrotor-demo. I even tried building it with the source but then errors from driver_base not found happen. If there are any melodic users can you guide me how to install hector_quadrotor.

[meyerj]

I am afraid that the hector_quadrotor repository and some of its hector_* dependencies have not (yet) been released for kinetic, lunar or melodic because of a lack of time.

But I was able to build everything from source (see hector_quadrotor.rosinstall) with the following patches that have been merged into their respective default branches (kinetic-devel/catkin) in Ubuntu bionic with ROS melodic and Gazebo 9:

• Use Gazebo 8 APIs to avoid deprecation warnings. hector_gazebo#44
• remove implicit operator bool on boost::shared_ptr<> hector_localization#16
• tu-darmstadt-ros-pkg/hector_localization@30bf100
• fca8caf
• 0e5bffe
• 5b60ec6 and
• 8bbd11e.

I have not checked yet whether there are any apparent functional issues.

[deBilla]

Thank you very much i will try it out.

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On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 at 16:54, Johannes Meyer ***@***.***> wrote: I am afraid that the hector_quadrotor repository and some of its hector_* dependencies have not (yet) been released for kinetic, lunar or melodic because of a lack of time. But I was able to build everything from source (see hector_quadrotor.rosinstall <https://github.com/tu-darmstadt-ros-pkg/hector_quadrotor/blob/kinetic-devel/hector_quadrotor.rosinstall> with the following patches that have been merged into their respective default branches (kinetic-devel/catkin) in Ubuntu bionic with ROS melodic and Gazebo 9: - tu-darmstadt-ros-pkg/hector_gazebo#44 <tu-darmstadt-ros-pkg/hector_gazebo#44> - tu-darmstadt-ros-pkg/hector_localization#16 <tu-darmstadt-ros-pkg/hector_localization#16> - ***@***.*** <tu-darmstadt-ros-pkg/hector_localization@30bf100> - fca8caf <fca8caf> - 0e5bffe <0e5bffe> - 5b60ec6 <5b60ec6> and - 8bbd11e <8bbd11e> . I have not checked yet whether there are any apparent functional issues. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#92 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AP0cV1_mWHTod8qNZuiW1HPvl_neMlTlks5t6l7hgaJpZM4Udt3z> .

[yrosascu]

Hi, @CredOz do you try? it worked?

[deBilla]

Not working... I think it's better for m to switch to a old version of ubuntu to get it work. But actually I tried my software on a real quadcopter

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[ghost]

I could install it without much of a hassle.
Perhaps now it can work on melodic)

[deBilla]

Yeah i tried it long time ago. Must be fiexed now

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On Wed, Aug 7, 2019, 17:08 letsdoitagain ***@***.***> wrote: I could install it without much of a hassle. Perhaps now it can work on melodic) — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#92?email_source=notifications&email_token=AD6RYVZI26XAKFOQT7FQTLDQDKX3FA5CNFSM4FDW3XZ2YY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFVREXG43VMVBW63LNMVXHJKTDN5WW2ZLOORPWSZGOD3YDNYY#issuecomment-519059171>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AD6RYV3PWHCL26SPYDNHLHDQDKX3FANCNFSM4FDW3XZQ> .

[haidenmcgrath]

Can anyone confirm that hector quadrotor is working on ROS melodic on Ubuntu 18.04?

[haidenmcgrath]

@CredOz @letsdoitagain @meyerj @yrosascu

[deBilla]

Nope i havent tried it in a long time.

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[ghost]

yup,as i said in the previous message. it did for me.
All i have to do was to install another package from source in the same directory. i think it was hector_localization (if not mistaken). So, yes it works just fine.

However, i am not sure about other packages it depends upon. for example: hector_mapping is released only for kinetic. i have not tried it for this package.

[pfreitasc]

I'd just like to confirm that you can indeed install it in Ubuntu 18.04 with Melodic. There are melodic versions of hector_models and hector_gazebo, and hector_quadrotor and hector_localization are compatible, if I'm not mistaken.

[EdwinMeriaux]

@letsdoitagain @PedroFrCa
Hi, I just have an additional question.
So, you installed the hector_loclization, hector_models, hector_gazebo, and hector_quadrotor.
But was there a hector_quadrotor_teleop for ROS Melodic? I can only find one for ROS Kinetic.

[kowais915]

I am using ROS melodic on ubuntu 18.04 and when it still says:

Could not find a package configuration file provided by
"hector_pose_estimation" with any of the following names:

hector_pose_estimationConfig.cmake
hector_pose_estimation-config.cmake