EEROS Robotics Framework

EEROS is a fully open-source software framework for the developement of robots used in research and as well for commercial used robot systems. It is supposed to be a flexible and universal usable platform which is safe and easy to use. It contains three sub systems: The Control System, the Safety System and the Sequencer.

Documentation

• Project Website: (www.eeros.org)
• Project Wiki: (wiki.eeros.org)
• EEROS API: (api.eeros.org)

Build the EEROS Robotics Framework

Requirements

• Linux based operating system (support for other platforms will be added in a further release)
• GCC 4.7 or newer (clang/llvm should work too, but is not tested)
• CMake 2.8 or newer
• GNU make
• Optional dependencies:
  • libncurses5-dev
  • libcomedi (www.comedi.org)
  • libflink (www.github.com/flink-project)

Local build

1. Clone git repository: $ git clone https://github.com/eeros-project/eeros-framework.git
2. Create a build directory: $ mkdir build-local
3. Enter the build directory and setup your build environment with CMake: $ cmake ..
   • Optional: you can specify an installation prefix path: -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr/local/
4. Build the source code: $ make
5. Install the library and header files on your system: $ make install

Cross build

1. Clone git repository: $ git clone https://github.com/eeros-project/eeros-framework.git
2. Create a build directory, e.g: $ mkdir build-powerpc
3. Create a CMake toolchain file (or pick one from the cmake directory of the EEROS framework). For more informations, please have a look at the CMake Wiki.
4. Enter the build directory and setup your build environment with CMake: $ cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE:PATH=/path/to/your/toolchain/file.cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr/powerpc-linux-gnu/ ..
5. Build the source code: $ make
6. Install the library and header files on your system: $ make install