Jackal Maintenance
Software Maintenance
Getting New Packages
If you are upgrading your robot from an older version of ROS, please refer to our upgrade instructions for upgrading to ROS 1 Melodic, ROS 1 Noetic and ROS 2.
Clearpath Robotics robots are always being improved, both its own software and the many community ROS packages upon which it depends!
You can use the apt package management system to receive new versions all software running on the platform.
Each robot leaves the factory already configured to pull packages from http://packages.ros.org as well as http://packages.clearpathrobotics.com. To update your package and download new package versions, simply run:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
MCU Firmware Update
Refer to firmware update instructions. Be sure to select the ROS 2 distribution that matches the ROS 2 distribution installed on your robot.
WD Blue SA510 SATA SSD Critical Firmware Update
Some computers shipped with a WD Blue SA510 SATA SSD, for which the manufacturer has posted a critical firmware update notice.
Failure to perform the firmware update could result in permanent failure of the SSD.
See these instructions to check if your SSD is affected and to perform the update.
Support
Clearpath is committed to your success. Please get in touch with us and we will do our best to get you rolling again quickly: <support@clearpathrobotics.com>.
To get in touch with a salesperson regarding Clearpath Robotics products, please email <research-sales@clearpathrobotics.com>.
If you have an issue that is specifically about ROS and is something which may be of interest to the broader community, consider asking it on Robotics Stack Exchange. If you do not get a satisfactory response, please ping us and include a link to your question as posted there. If appropriate, we will answer on Robotics Stack Exchange for the benefit of the community.