There is a multi-robot control interface, called RIDE, developed at Washington University: http://www.ros.org/wiki/ride and http://mmtest.cse.wustl.edu/?q=project/4 An updated version, which is the one you probably want if you're going to use it, is here: https://code.ros.org/svn/wg-ros-pkg/branches/trunk_diamondback/stacks/ride-transitional This code has a dependency on Panda3d ( http://www.panda3d.org/), which currently has to be installed by hand. Finally, we're working on a new version, as part of the Building Manager project. It's not ready for use yet, but you can check it out here: https://code.ros.org/svn/wg-ros-pkg/branches/trunk_diamondback/sandbox/ride2 If you're interested in using RIDE in any of it's forms, I'd be happy to help you get things set up and running. cheers -- Bill On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Victor Lopez wrote: > I was asking for both. If a Surface-like SDK existed, it could be used to > control multiple robots. And viceversa with the framework for controlling > multiple robots, it can be expanded to work on something similar to MS > Surface. > > I had already read about Building Manager, but it's still on a early stage > of development as far as I can see, so it doesn't fit my timeschedule. I'll > keep an eye on it as we're already planning on using multimaster with ros > relay. > > In any case, I wouldn't develop it to run under Windows ;) > > Thanks for the information provided. > > > On 16 March 2011 14:18, Jeff Rousseau wrote: > >> Are you asking if anyone is using multi-touch tables together with ROS, >> or if there is just a general framework for controlling multiple robots? I >> don't have any info on the former but the latter seems to be in progress: >> >> http://www.ros.org/wiki/Projects/Building%20Manager >> >> The prereq for controlling multiple robots being "multi-master" support >> (there are several partial implementations of this already--google for ros >> zenmaster and ros relay). I believe the Building Manager project aims to >> come up with a full multi-master solution. >> >> As far as the Surface SDK goes, it's basically just an extension of WPF to >> support some fancy widgets (ScatterView, etc). Using the Surface SDK >> requires a Surface though, so unless you already have one I'd go a different >> route. Both Windows 7 and Ubuntu have some support for multi-touch (and >> some multi-touch monitors can be had for _relatively_ cheap): >> >> Win7: >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd562197(v=vs.85).aspx >> >> Ubuntu 10.10: >> https://launchpad.net/utouch- >> * >> * >> geis >> http://people.canonical.com/ >> * >> * >> ~stephenwebb/geis-v2/ >> >> Of course if you do go the Windows route, you'll have the headache of >> trying to write ROS code in Windows (support for this exists, but only >> partially) >> >> Jeff >> >> >> On 3/16/2011 6:48 AM, Victor Lopez wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm planning on developing a multi-robot adminstration interface, and I've >> come across this video: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSOziHgQedA&feature=related >> >> Is there anything similar under development in ROS? 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