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Robotic Suite Basic Installation Guide

Advantech Robotic Suite provides a consistent installation experience for Advantch platforms (eg. Intel, ARM - NXP i.MX 8M, NVIDIA Jetson and Qualcomm).
Users can easily install and set up the ROS2 environment to quickly start developing robot applications (example: AMR, AGV, Fleet Management ...).

Robotic Suite SDK Smart Installer-1.1

Download​

Download Advantech Robotic Suite

Install​

Note: Make sure your target system satisfies the following conditions:

  • Advantech platforms with certified Ubuntu Desktop 20.04, 22.04 or 24.04 LTS with SUSI driver and WISEAgent installer (WISEAgent v2.0.0 or higher is not supported)
  • At least 8 GB hard drive free space
  • At least 8 GB RAM
  • An active Internet connection is required
  • Use the English language environment in Ubuntu OS

Install the Advantech Robotic Suite:

$ tar zxfv adv-robotic-suite-installer-<version>.tar.gz
$ sudo ./adv-robotic-suite-installer.run

Make sure you see a message on the last line that the installation is complete, then please restart your computer to complete the environment setup.

Robotic Suite SDK finished install

If you encounter any issues during the installation process, please refer to [Q&A].

Verify​

Verify on Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04​

Step 1: Update ROS2 environment variables:

$ source ~/.bashrc

Step 2: Print ROS2 environment variables:

$ printenv | grep ROS

Step 3: If the installation is successful, you will see output similar to:

Robotic Suite SDK printenv

Verify on Ubuntu 24.04​

Step 1: Check Advantech Robotic Suite container has been created:

Robotic Suite SDK container list

Uninstall​

Command to uninstall the Advantech Robotic Suite:

$ cd /usr/local/Advantech/ros
$ ./uninstall.sh