Custom robot dashboard

asked 2015-06-03 10:33:08 -0600

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updated 2015-07-03 13:40:58 -0600

I am looking for a simple way to build virtual dashboard (teach pendant) for industrial robot.

What I basically need is a GUI application with several buttons where I can emulate such things like emergency button, dead man's handle, axes selection and actuation, and others.

rqt_reconfigure is not an option since buttons are not supported.

Probably the rqt_robot_dashboard is what I need, but unfortunatelly there are neither tutorials nor documentation available. The link to Python API docs is broken either.

Any suggestions?

P.S. I am on ROS Indigo now.

Thanks

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answered 2015-06-03 17:54:08 -0600

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The API link is broken indeed, but you can get the some docs at: http://docs.ros.org/indigo/api/rqt_ro...

Furthermore, it is maybe worthwhile to look at other robots' dashboards and take and adapt the existing bits and pieces, e.g. the youbot dashboard: https://github.com/youbot/youbot-ros-...

or the turtlebot dashboard: https://github.com/yujinrobot/kobuki_...

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I somehow think the dashboards are not really nice everybody is reinventing the wheel, there is nothing really reusable. For example everybody does it's own diagnostics message for the laptop battery while there would be actually a node like laptop_battery_monitor in ros-drivers ...

cyborg-x1 ( 2015-06-03 18:24:32 -0600 )edit

Maybe a reconfigurable widget for a single or multiple buttons would be nice, and having a rqt_button message... or something like that...

cyborg-x1 ( 2015-06-03 18:25:31 -0600 )edit

@daenny Thanks! I have seen that page with API, but was confused by empty Main page.

Boris ( 2015-06-04 06:55:08 -0600 )edit

@cyborg-x1 I agree, there should be a simpler way to define such simple things. I will try to adopt Qt Quick with its markup language (QML) it looks very promising. But I am not sure if Indigo and Jade depend on Qt5.

Boris ( 2015-06-04 06:56:42 -0600 )edit

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answered 2015-07-03 13:40:16 -0600

Boris

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So, finally I wrote a small plugin to integrate Qt 5.4 QML with ROS: https://github.com/bgromov/ros_qml . The interface can be edited directly with Qt Designer and all the logic can be programmed with QML JavaScript.

See example here.

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