Revision as of 16:01, 15 June 2021

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The Movidius Neural Compute Stick 2 requires OpenVINO toolkit. So the install is little more of a challenge. I haven't gotten the Foxy Demos to compile yet.

References

Hardware

• NCS 2 Data Sheet

ROS 2 support

• Started Here: ROS 2 Documentation
• Expand "Related Projects" in left panel. Select:: Intel ROS2 Projects
• In "Key Projects" section select: ROS 2 Intel Movidius NCS

It states: "Warning: This repo is depreciated. For latest ROS2 wrapper for Movidius NCS, please refer to our project ros2_openvino_roolkit.

• See: ros2 openvino toolkit
• In the "Installation $ Launching" section see "ROS2 Foxy": ROS2 Foxy OpenVINO_ Tookit

ROS2 OpenVINO Toolkit - Getting Started with Foxy

• ROS2 Foxy OpenVINO Toolkit

1. Install ROS2 Foxy from source code

Update cmake 3.14

I'm at 3.16

 $ cmake --version
       cmake version 3.16.3
 
       CMake suite maintained and supported by Kitware (kitware.com/cmake).

Install ROS2 Foxy

I've already installed this from binary. I hope that is ok. I skip this.

Environment Setup

= Install OpenVINO

• See "guide" link: Tet the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO Toolkit
  • Operating System "Linux"
  • Distribution: We & Local (recommended)
  • Version Type: 2021.3 (latest) - I tried 2020.3 but it didn't work possibly because I am on Ubuntu 20.04
  • Installer Type: Local
  • Press the "Download" button and choose to put it in my "Download" directory

This is a summary of the installation instructions

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 The following steps apply to Ubuntu*, CentOS*, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux*, and Yocto* versions of Linux.
 
 Step 1: Open a command prompt terminal window.
 
 Step 2: Unpack the .tgz file.
 
 tar -xvzf l_openvino_toolkit_p_<version>.tgz
 
 Step 3: Go to the l_openvino_toolkit_p_<version> directory:
 
 cd l_openvino_toolkit_p_<version>
 
 Step 4: Choose your installation option.
 
     GUI Installation Wizard: sudo ./install_GUI.sh
     Command-Line Instructions: sudo ./install.sh
 
 Step 5: Follow the instructions in the installer.
 
 Step 6: The core components are installed. To complete the configuration, follow the instructions in the Complete Installation Guide.

Install OpenVINO

Notes and Logs

• Turtlebot3 Waffle NUC Foxy Movidius 2 202106Combined Notes and Logs