[ros-users] Multi-robot administration interface

[Jeff Rousseau]

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 
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd562197%28v=vs.85%29.aspx>

Ubuntu 10.10:
https://launchpad.net/utouch-geis
http://people.canonical.com/~stephenwebb/geis-v2/ 
<http://people.canonical.com/%7Estephenwebb/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 
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSOziHgQedA&feature=related>
>
> 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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