Asctec Pelican GUI

The purpose of this project is an example of how to write a web page that can be accessed by any device on the same network as the host computer by accessing the IP of that host computer.

Here are the following requirements:

1. A roscore running
2. The IP of the machine running ROS
3. Permissions be changed on the working directory
4. apache2 up and running

Getting server up and running#

Here the rosbridge_suite that is used to link the websocket and ROS: http://wiki.ros.org/rosbridge_suite.

Basic ROS functionality of rosbridge: http://wiki.ros.org/roslibjs/Tutorials/BasicRosFunctionality

the launch command: roslaunch rosbridge_server rosbridge_websocket.launch

TODO

By using ROSBridge, this GUI will attempt to display relevant information over the web for any device.

TODO: 2. Display Network Information

1. Display camera image
2. Move connection information to a new tab