WSL, ROS Humble - Simulink

Hello,

I am using ROS Humbe on WSL2 with Ubuntu 22.04 and I was wondering if I should install MATLAB into my Ubuntu System ? Or MATLAB on my Windows can still communicate with ROS ? Has any one ever tried using it ?

Answer 1

[Daniele Sportillo]

Hi Denizhan,

you don't need to install MATLAB on your Ubuntu system. MATLAB on your Windows will be able to communicate with ROS installed on WSL.

To test you can run on your WSL:

ros2 topic echo /chatter

and in MATLAB:

node = ros2node("/MyNode");
pub = ros2publisher(node,"/chatter","std_msgs/String");
msg = ros2message(pub);
msg.data = 'Hello!';
send(pub,msg);