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System requirements

rethink-rsl edited this page Mar 25, 2013 · 17 revisions

Following are the system requirements for installing, building, and running the RSDK:

  • A Baxter Research Robot
  • A development workstation capable of running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and ROS Electric, with the following minimum specifications:
    • Intel i5 or above
    • 4GB Memory or above
    • At least 2 GB of free disk space
    • Ethernet port

A list of Ubuntu certified hardware may be found here.


Known Setups

Below is a list of some development machine setups from other users.

Hardware Software Works? Notes
Lenovo ThinkPad X230t Ubuntu 10.04.04 LTS
Lenovo ThinkPad W530 Ubuntu 10.04.04 LTS Well
Lenovo ThinkPad T410s Ubuntu 10.04.04 LTS Okay Lenovo Integrated Display needed to be turned off in the BIOS to get rviz to work.

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