Nautilus GUI & AV Simulator Setup

Overview

This guide provides instructions for setting up a graphical user interface (GUI) environment on Nautilus with an autonomous vehicle (AV) simulator of your choice. Designed for use at Professor Gilpin's AIEA lab at UCSC, it assumes you have already installed Kubernetes and got added to the AIEA Namespace

This project builds on modifications of this Nautilus GUI setup tutorial, and this CARLA setup tutorial.

Note: Nautilus updates frequently, so this may be outdated. Please check when this was last updated and compare with the Nautilus GitLab.

Last updated: 11/17/2024

Quick Setup

Note: The pod automatically closes every 6 hours and you will need to redo steps 2 and 3 every time it closes.

1. Replace Placeholder Names

Open all the files and replace all instances of INITIALS to your initials (must be lowercase). In the (gui_setup.sh) file, you can edit the default password 1234 as well.

2. Run the GUI Setup Script

Next, in your local terminal, run the provided script, gui_setup.sh.

If successful, you should see an output that looks like this: Forwarding from 127.0.0.1:8080 -> 8080. Then, copy and paste 127.0.0.1:8080 into your web browser. Input "ubuntu" for the username. Input your password.

3. Run the AV Setup Script of Your Choice

Once the desktop is running, you can download the autonomous vehicle (AV) simulator of your choice. For CARLA, run carla_setup.sh. For VISTA, run vista_setup.sh. You can also research and manually download any other AV simulator of your choice.