I'd like to add that the rcommander (now rosco) work was done by my
colleague Hai Nguyen and you can find additional information here:
http://www.hsi.gatech.edu/hrl/project_rosco.shtml  He has even more recent
work which evaluated the interface with novice robot users.

-Kelsey
On Dec 17, 2013 5:38 PM, "Edwards, Shaun M." <sedwards@swri.org> wrote:

>  Willy,
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> Georgia Tech had/has a tool for visually editing SMACH based FHMs.
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> http://wiki.ros.org/rcommander_core?distro=fuerte
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> Shaun Edwards
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> Senior Research Engineer
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> Manufacturing System Department
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> http://robotics.swri.org
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> http://rosindustrial.swri.org/
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> *From:* ros-users-bounces@code.ros.org [mailto:
> ros-users-bounces@code.ros.org] *On Behalf Of *Willy Lambert
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 17, 2013 3:16 PM
> *To:* User discussions
> *Subject:* Re: [ros-users] ROS Decision Making
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> Hi,
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> this sounds promising.
>
> There are many FSM frameworks around, and AFAIK there are few (or even
> none ?) that provide great graphic tools (including graphical edition !!).
> The key of success is around those tools.
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> I'm currently using smach because :
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> _ they provide a graphical "debugger"
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> _ the user code can be very very light which allow non-informatician to
> write code.
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> I'm desesperatly looking for a graphical tool to generate my state
> machines. If you achieve this, I would be glad to be a beta tester.
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> 2013/12/17 Edwards, Shaun M. <sedwards@swri.org>
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> Yakir,
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> This looks pretty cool.  In the past I have used SMACH[1] for my state
> machines.  It works well but lacks event based state transitions.  In
> particular I want to use service calls to change certain states.  Is this
> something your library would support?
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> [1] http://wiki.ros.org/smach
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> Shaun Edwards
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> Senior Research Engineer
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> Manufacturing System Department
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> http://robotics.swri.org
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> http://rosindustrial.swri.org/
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> http://ros.swri.org
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> Join the ROS-Industrial Developers List<https://groups.google.com/group/swri-ros-pkg-dev/boxsubscribe>
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> Southwest Research Institute
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> 210-522-3277
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> *From:* ros-users-bounces@code.ros.org [mailto:
> ros-users-bounces@code.ros.org] *On Behalf Of *Ari Yakir
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 17, 2013 9:13 AM
> *To:* ros-users@code.ros.org
> *Subject:* [ros-users] ROS Decision Making
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> Hi ROS Users,
>
> We are currently working hard towards bringing into ROS a collection of
> open, light-weight, generic and extendable tools for writing [1] ,
> executing, debugging and monitoring [2] decision making models through ROS
> standard tools.
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> Currently we have implemented  FSM's, HSM's and Behaviour trees.
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> The documentation is still sparse, and not all the code is up, but we
> think it's already amazing. Here are some examples [3]
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> We would be glad to collaborate with anyone interested (academy, research
> or commercial), welcome implementation of new models , comments and
> feedback.
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> [1] http://wiki.ros.org/decision_making
> [2] http://wiki.ros.org/rqt_decision_graph
> [3] http://wiki.ros.org/decision_making_examples
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> Thanks.
>
> Yakir Ari, Cogniteam
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