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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.
Quick Start Guide
If you are connecting to a remote computer that is running the roscore, you need to run the following lines in the terminal:
sudo route add 192.168.2.1 gw <Host computer IP>
export ROS_MASTER_URI=http://<Host computer IP>:11311
export ROS_IP=<your IP>
Make sure you have the web_video_server installed:
sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-web-video-server
Make sure you have ROSBridge installed:
sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-rosbridge-suite
Then run the bash file in the working directory by running the following in the terminal.
bash launch.bash
Just display the webpage
If you just want to test the webpage, navigate to the working directory in the terminal and type
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Then open http://localhost:8000/.
Making Changes
Feel free to clone this project and use it as a base for your own GUI.
You can easily customise the "Robot Display" pannel by changing the HTML "robot_display.html" file.
All ROS related Javascript should go in the "ProjectFiles/js/ros_scripts.js" file. All functions that are used to update the GUI should go in the "ProjectFiles/js/update_guis.js" file
By using ROSBridge, this GUI will attempt to display relevant information over the web for any device.
TODO:
- Display Network Information
- Add checkmarks for which topics you want to record
- Add time plot for data
- fix connectoin button on ROS Bridge Connection tab