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Ground Control Station

The Ground Control Station (GCS) is for operators to monitor and control the robots.

Requirements: - 60GB Hard Disk Space - min 8GB RAM - min 4 CPU Cores - Ubuntu 22.04

Setup

WinTAK is setup as auto start on boot and connects to Airlabs TAK-Server. Its run on Windows 11 VirtualBox Virtual Machine.

Setup

  1. Set your ANDREWID as an environment variable. 
    export ANDREWID=<your_andrew_id>
  2. Run the following commands to setup WinTAK running over Windows VirtualBox. 
    sudo mkdir -p "$HOME/vmware"
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER "$HOME/vmware"
sudo chmod -R 755 "$HOME/vmware"
sudo rsync --progress -avz ${ANDREWID}@airlab-storage.andrew.cmu.edu:/volume4/dsta/atak/setup/ "$HOME/vmware"
sudo dpkg -i "$HOME/vmware/virtualbox-7.1_7.1.6-167084~Ubuntu~jammy_amd64.deb"
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo /sbin/vboxconfig
VBoxManage import "$HOME/vmware/Windows11.ova" --vsys 0 --vmname "WinTAK"
  3. Run WinTAK using the following commands. 
    VBoxManage startvm "WinTAK"

NOTE: If it asks to reset the password, please reset to current password.

WinTAK