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rtabmap_ros/docker

Docker

  • Available images on introlab3it/rtabmap_ros:

    indigo
    kinetic
    melodic, melodic-latest
    noetic, noetic-latest
    
    • The -latest images are automatically built from latest version of rtabmap and rtabmap_ros from source (including GTSAM and libpointmatcher dependencies that are not available with ROS binaries). The other images have the same version than the binaries released on ROS.
  • The following example show how to launch a camera on host computer and run our pre-built rtabmap container. All examples from RGB-D tutorial and stereo tutorial should work using rtabmap from the container instead. Launch camera on host computer (set ROS_IP as the IP used for docker):

    $ export ROS_IP=172.17.0.1 && roslaunch openni2_launch openni2.launch depth_registration:=true
    # In another terminal, launch rtabmapviz or RVIZ. We do visualization 
    # on host computer to avoid GPU problems with the container (see "with gui" below to launch rtabmapviz from the container):
    $ export ROS_NAMESPACE=rtabmap && rosrun rtabmap_ros rtabmapviz _frame_id:=camera_link
    
  • Launch rtabmap from inside the container (no gui), saving the database on host ~/.ros/rtabmap.db:

    $ docker run -it --rm \
     --env ROS_MASTER_URI=http://172.17.0.1:11311 --env ROS_IP=172.17.0.2 \
     -v ~/.ros:/root  \
     introlab3it/rtabmap_ros:kinetic-latest \
     roslaunch rtabmap_ros rtabmap.launch rtabmapviz:=false database_path:=/root/rtabmap.db rtabmap_args:="--delete_db_on_start"
    
  • Launch rtabmap from inside the container (with gui, if you have a nvidia GPU, follow those instructions with nvidia-docker2 using one of the images above instead of the ros image example, or for other GPUs try the intel/AMD instructions to build a rtabmap_ros3d image with your GPU driver), saving the database on host ~/.ros/rtabmap.db:

    • With nvidia-docker2 approach, we would have this Dockerfile:
      FROM introlab3it/rtabmap_ros:noetic
      
      # nvidia-container-runtime
      ENV NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES \
          ${NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES:-all}
      ENV NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES \
          ${NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES:+$NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES,}graphics
      
      Building the image and run it:
      $ docker build -t rtabmap_ros3d .
      
      # those following 3 lines would need to be done only one time
      $ XAUTH=/tmp/.docker.xauth
      $ touch $XAUTH
      $ xauth nlist $DISPLAY | sed -e 's/^..../ffff/' | xauth -f $XAUTH nmerge -
      
      $ docker run -it --rm \
        --privileged \
        --env="DISPLAY=$DISPLAY" \
        --env="QT_X11_NO_MITSHM=1" \
        --volume="/tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix:rw" \
        --env="XAUTHORITY=$XAUTH" \
        --volume="$XAUTH:$XAUTH" \
        --runtime=nvidia \
        --env ROS_MASTER_URI=http://172.17.0.1:11311 --env ROS_IP=172.17.0.2 \
        -v ~/.ros:/root  \
        rtabmap_ros3d \
        roslaunch rtabmap_ros rtabmap.launch database_path:=/root/rtabmap.db rtabmap_args:="--delete_db_on_start"