• Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa (https://releases.ubuntu.com/20.04/)
• ROS 2 foxy (https://docs.ros.org/en/foxy/Installation/Ubuntu-Install-Debians.html)

YOLOv8 via the ultralytics pip package for the latest stable release (open new terminal)

pip install ultralytics

To build this package, you either need a ROS 2 workspace or create a new one. Here is the instructions to create a new ROS 2 workspace, build the package.

mkdir -p ~/ros2_ws/src

cd  ~/ros2_ws/src

git clone https://github.com/aleenalentin/YOLOv8-people-detection_ROS2.git

cd ~/ros2_ws

colcon build 

. install/setup.bash

cd ~/ros2_ws
. install/setup.bash
 ros2 launch people_detector people_detection.py

Click on the following image to see the demo video