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TensorFlow and ROS Kinetic with Python 2.7

TensorFlow and ROS Kinetic with Python 2.7

  1. Create a working directory
    $ mkdir ~/tf_ros && cd ~/tf_ros

  2. Download and Install an NVIDIA Driver >= 384.x (https://www.nvidia.co.jp/Download/index.aspx) We recommend RUN files, please check our other post on this topic.

  3. Download and Install CUDA 9.0 (https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-90-download-archive)

  4. Download and Install CUDNN for CUDA 9.0 (https://developer.nvidia.com/rdp/cudnn-download; https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/sdk/cudnn-install/index.html#installlinux)

  5. Download TensorFlow for Python 2.7
    $ wget https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/gpu/tensorflow_gpu-1.10.1-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl

  6. Install Python VirtualEnv
    $ sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv

  7. Create Python 2.7 virtual environment.
    $ virtualenv --system-site-packages -p python2 p2tf_venv
    (p2tf_venv can be any name)

  8. Activate environment
    $ source p2tf_venv/bin/activate

  9. Install TensorFlow
    (p2_venv) $ pip install --upgrade tensorflow_gpu-1.10.1-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl

  10. Make sure you have in LD_LIBARY_PATH, the cuda 9 libraries and binaries.

$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH && export PATH=/usr/local/cuda/bin:$PATH

  1. Check the ROS libraries are in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH as well.
    $ echo $LD_LIBRAY_PATH.
    It should contain /opt/ros/kinetic/lib:/opt/ros/kinetic/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

  2. Check that Python ROS libraries are also included in the $PYTHONPATH.
    $ echo $PYTHONPATH.
    It should contain /opt/ros/kinetic/lib/python2.7/dist-packages.

  3. Test your installation is correct.
    (p2_venv) $ python -c "import tensorflow as tf; print(tf.__version__)"
    It should print the TensorFlow version install, such as 1.10.1.

  4. Ready to go!

Rosbag Record from Rosbag Play, timestamps out of sync

When recording data from a previously recorded rosbag instead of sensor data, clock might become a problem.
Rosbag record updates the clock to the time when the rosbag is being created, but the original timestamps are not updated causing the clock in the rosbag and the topics timestamps to be out of sync.

To fix this when recording the new rosbag add /clock to the list of recorded topics. this will keep the clock of the original rosbag instead of creating a new one.

Example:

<launch>

  <param name="use_sim_true" value="true" />

  <node pkg="rosbag" type="play" name="rosbagplay" output="screen" required="true" args="--clock /PATH/TO/ROSBAGTOPLAY"/>

  <node pkg="rosbag" type="record" name="rosbagrecord" output="screen" required="true" args="/clock LISTOFTOPICS -O /PATH/TO/OUTPUTFILE"/>

</launch>

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