[ros-users] RFC: rviz on Android

Wed Apr 25 16:56:38 UTC 2012

It's not exactly streaming that point cloud data, but it does look like a
nice system.  I love the soundtrack. :)

Dave

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Jenkins, Odest Chadwicke <
odest_jenkins at brown.edu> wrote:

> Very cool, Jeff!  Big ups.
>
> Point clouds can be used effectively over rosbridge and the public
> internet.  For example, the following video shows a PR2 in Palo Alto
> teleoperated by a user in Atlanta through a browser interface with
> Kinect RGBD data, two camera views, tfs, interactive markers, and
> more:
>
>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWG7em5cwWo
>
> Admittedly, there were some special hacks needed to make this happen
> (compression, recasting of topics, etcs.).  However, such hacks could
> be generalized by rethinking ROS's pubsub mechanisms and topics to be
> smarter about data.
>
> -Chad
>
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:39:25 +0000
> From: "Jeff Rousseau <jrousseau at aptima.com>" <jrousseau at aptima.com>
> To: User discussions <ros-users at code.ros.org>
> Subject: Re: [ros-users] RFC: rviz on Android
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>
> Another approach, and one I've personally taken in some of our apps,
> is to build reusable UI components in HTML5 while keeping the
> lower-level data transfer code platform-specific.  For example the
> platform-specific code for our Android version uses rosjava just to
> push data from subscriber callbacks to populate the UI elements in an
> Android "WebView" component.  All view and business logic (majority of
> code) resides in the HTML5 side.  You lose the "everything runs in a
> browser", but still gain some code reuse.
>
> This said, I still wouldn't advocate for a "one user interface to rule
> them all" type of thing.  A multi-touch tablet has different
> affordances than a desktop-PC with a mouse and keyboard.  Desktop UIs
> don't work on 8" tablets and vv.  We simply use the common-denominator
> (using HTML5) approach to save development cycles on similar platforms
> (iOS, touch-PCs, Android, etc).
>
> Just some things to consider
> Jeff
>
> From: ros-users-bounces at code.ros.org
> [mailto:ros-users-bounces at code.ros.org] On Behalf Of Dave Hershberger
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 5:06 PM
> To: User discussions
> Subject: Re: [ros-users] RFC: rviz on Android
>
> I definitely like the idea of rviz-like functionality in a browser,
> where it is accessible from essentially any device.  One of the big
> use-cases though is Point Cloud data, which is already very high
> bandwidth, even in binary format.  If we sent that data in JSON
> format, it would expand about 4 times in size.  If there were support
> for binary data sent via websockets, rosbridge, etc, I would be
> thinking more seriously about it.
>
> Dave
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Jeff Rousseau
> <jrousseau at aptima.com<mailto:jrousseau at aptima.com>>
> <jrousseau at aptima.com<mailto:jrousseau at aptima.com>> wrote:
> Dariush,
>
> I think it really depends on what you want in your "android rviz"
>
> We (at Aptima) have built some nice HTML5 UIs that wrap nicely into
> Android and iOS devices for controlling multiple robots.  So if you're
> looking for a replacement for something like the old nav_view
> functionality, we've found that HTML5 gives you some nice
> portability/code-reuse benefits.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcATNhoJ3gg
>
> I think of rviz as a "visual debugger" as well as an extremely basic
> navigation interface.  We cared more about building a UI for
> controlling the nav stack (queing waypoints, etc) so our use case
> might not be exactly the same.
>
> Jeff
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ros-users-bounces at code.ros.org<mailto:
> ros-users-bounces at code.ros.org> [mailto:ros-users-<mailto:ros-users->
> > bounces at code.ros.org<mailto:bounces at code.ros.org>] On Behalf Of Dariush
> Forouher
> > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 9:50 AM
> > To: User discussions
> > Subject: Re: [ros-users] RFC: rviz on Android
> >
> > Interesting, thanks for the many answers.
> >
> > I agree, building ROS apps for the browser is generally preferable for
> > portability reasons.  I don't know whether a fullfledged rviz is doable
> inside
> > the browser, however. wviz looks nice, though.
> >
> > @Dave: Working together on this sounds like a great idea. I was thinking
> of
> > handing this out as a student project as well. Once I've found someone
> Ill
> > contact you to see where we can contribute.
> >
> > cheers
> > Dariush
> >
> > Am 21.04.2012 04<tel:21.04.2012%2004>:06, schrieb Michael Carroll:
> > > I would certainly be interested in helping out.  I did a somewhat-iOS
> > > capable ROS bridge based on a 3rd party app for the iPhone and iPad,
> > > but I don't know that it's really a suitable long term solution.
> > >
> > > I, too, was considering something along the lines of rosbridge for a
> > > more fully-featured cross platform "app" (which could support any web
> > > enabled device).
> > >
> > > I think that if a "mobile ROS" is done, it should be with the goal to
> > > be as cross platform as possible.  I understand this becomes
> > > cumbersome when it comes to Rviz, but for most of the other
> > > interesting day-to-day information, widgets and text should cover it.
> > >
> > > ~mc
> > >
> > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 13:00, Dave Hershberger
> > > <hersh at willowgarage.com<mailto:hersh at willowgarage.com> <mailto:
> hersh at willowgarage.com<mailto:hersh at willowgarage.com>>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     er, I meant he's starting in May and I hope that in *June* we'll be
> > >     ready to farm out the Display subclass work.
> > >
> > >     Dave
> > >
> > >
> > >     On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Dave Hershberger
> > >     <hersh at willowgarage.com<mailto:hersh at willowgarage.com> <mailto:
> hersh at willowgarage.com<mailto:hersh at willowgarage.com>>> wrote:
> > >
> > >         That's great, thanks.  The project is supposed to start
> sometime
> > >         in May when my intern arrives.  Hopefully sometime in April
> > >         we'll be ready to start writing Display classes, which is the
> > >         place that looks easiest (to me) to farm out different pieces
> of
> > >         work.  All Displays are subclasses of the Display class and
> they
> > >         all use the same APIs do their various work, and there are
> about
> > >         20 of them.
> > >
> > >         It will also be great to have people testing and reporting bugs
> > >         in different use cases we might not see in-house.
> > >
> > >         Dave
> >
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