Car Bringup

This document describes the steps required to bring up a new car for the first time after assembling the hardware.

These steps have been completed for you

Prior to the FRI course, these steps have been completed for you, but are included here for completeness.

Flash the Orin

Using NVIDIA's SDK Manager, flash the Jetson Orin module with the appropriate JetPack version as described in the Jetson Orin Nano Flashing Guide.

Checkout the Workspace on the Car

Note: Prior to using git on the car, ensure you have your SSH keys set up for GitHub access and Key Forwarding.

cd
git clone [email protected]:ut-av/roboracer_ws.git

Note: this public repository tracks an upstream repository: github.com/ut-amrl/roboracer_ws. For course developers: to pull updates from the upstream, git remote add upstream [email protected]:ut-amrl/roboracer_ws.git and then git merge upstream/main.

Checkout the Code in the Workspace

cd roboracer_ws/
./scripts/checkout.sh

Build the Container

cd roboracer_ws/
./container build

Build the Workspace

cd roboracer_ws/
./container shell
make

Configure the camera with the Raspberry Pi Camera

sudo /opt/nvidia/jetson-io/jetson-io.py

For more details, see the camera setup instructions in Raspberry Pi Camera Setup.