[ros-users] RFC: rviz on Android

[Mace, Jonathan]

At Brown, we've done some work with web based interfaces using rosbridge
(including collaborating with Bosch on wviz).  If you're going for
interfaces that are quicker to develop and reusable over multiple
platforms, then rosbridge-based interfaces might be a way to go.

Here's an example of a simple ARDrone teleop interface:
http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/jcmace/ros/www/webteleop/ardrone.html
And here's an example of a more heavyweight web control panel:
http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/jcmace/ros/www/webtools/main.html

We're also intending to use a toolkit like dojo mobile (
http://dojotoolkit.org/features/mobile ) to write web-based mobile
interfaces, that hook into ROS using rosbridge.

On 20 April 2012 12:41, Dave Hershberger <hersh at willowgarage.com> wrote:

> We don't have any IOS plans that I know of.
>
> We've focused on Android for our mobile and tablet development because of
> its openness and because a bunch of nice infrastructure has been written
> and continues to be written for Android (ROS-Java and ROS-Android) (
> http://code.google.com/p/rosjava/) by Damon Kohler and others at Google.
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 9:31 AM, It's My Robot! <itsmyrobot at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Will you be working on an IOS (apple iphone/ipad) version?
>>
>>
>>
>> Op 20 apr. 2012 om 18:26 heeft Dave Hershberger <hersh at willowgarage.com>
>> het volgende geschreven:
>>
>> I have an intern coming this summer who will be working on
>> rviz-for-android.  If people would like to help out, I'm sure we could find
>> pieces for others to work on.
>>
>> I totally agree with Damon that it should not be a port of rviz but
>> rather a rewrite which takes Android and the phone/tablet environment into
>> account from the start.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> On Apr 20, 2012 5:27 AM, "Ryan Gariepy" <rgariepy at clearpathrobotics.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Have you taken a look at wviz? (http://ros.org/wiki/wviz)
>>>
>>> -Ryan
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Damon Kohler <damonkohler at google.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Dariush Forouher
>>>> <forouher at iti.uni-luebeck.de> wrote:
>>>> > Hi all,
>>>> >
>>>> > Working with a mobile robot I sometimes dream of having a tablet
>>>> running
>>>> > rviz, that would visualize all the data and had a nice touchscreen
>>>> interface
>>>> > for moving and stuff.
>>>> >
>>>> > * Is someone already working on this or has worked in the past?
>>>>
>>>> The android_core stack is evolving toward something like rviz.
>>>> However, rather than focusing on a single rviz-like application, the
>>>> focus is on creating Android Views that could be combined to build it.
>>>>
>>>> One example is the  VisualizationView:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://code.google.com/p/rosjava/source/browse/android_honeycomb_mr2/src/org/ros/android/view/visualization/VisualizationView.java?repo=android
>>>>
>>>> > * What would be the best approach? Reimplement everything or
>>>> >  try to adapt rviz_qt to run on Android?
>>>>
>>>> I think re-implementing everything with Android in mind is the best
>>>> approach. Attempting a direct port will probably lead to
>>>> inflexibility and sub-optimal performance.
>>>>
>>>> There are a lot of additional considerations when working on mobile
>>>> devices that, as a desktop application, rviz does not need to take
>>>> into account.
>>>>
>>>> > * What features would be the most interesting?
>>>>
>>>> I've been focusing primarily on mapping, other point-like
>>>> visualizations, and 2D camera control for now. Once the views are in
>>>> place, building a flexible app, like rviz, that can be configured at
>>>> run time to show arbitrary topic data should be straight forward.
>>>>
>>>> > cheers
>>>> > Dariush
>>>> > --
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>>>> > http://www.iti.uni-luebeck.de/mitarbeiter/dariush-forouher-m-sc.html
>>>> >
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