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 ;)
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:
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):
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)
Is there anything similar under development in ROS? Do you
know any other companies that provide software similar to
Microsoft Surface?
Regards
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ros-users because it's not a technical question. Apologies for
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