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# Ground Control Station

The Ground Control Station (GCS) is for operators to monitor and control the robots.
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](asset/setup.png)

1. Set your `ANDREWID` as an environment variable.
```bash
export ANDREWID=<your_andrew_id>
```
2. Run the following commands to setup WinTAK running over Windows VirtualBox.
```bash
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.
```bash
VBoxManage startvm "WinTAK"
```

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

![WinTAK](asset/WinTAK_on_windows_virtualbox_vm.png)