[ros-users] ROS Web Services - on GitHub

[Ernesto Corbellini]

Hi Anis,
Thanks for your contribution! It looks very interesting.

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Anis Koubaa (COINS) via ros-users <
ros-users at lists.ros.org> wrote:

>
> Based on our experience, working with rosjava was tedious and
> unfortunately, the easiness of the Java language cannot be fully utilized
> considering the difficulty of setting up ROS applications with ROSJAVA.
> Just creating messages in ROS and making them available to ROSJAVA was a
> tedious process.
>
> This is related to Hydro version, and not sure if Indigo brought better
> comfort with ROSJAVA.
>

Indeed the Indigo version of Rosjava has improved support for message
generation:
http://wiki.ros.org/rosjava/Tutorials/indigo/RosJava%20Message%20Artifacts

For further questions specifically related to rosjava I can refer you to
the mailing list: ros-sig-java at googlegroups.com



>
> To make better use of a ROS Web services, we plan to port them to Python
> considering that it is more naturally supported by ROS.
>
> Just to give my feedback on this to the community, and open for
> discussions.
>
> Thanks
> Anis
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Anis Koubaa, PhD.,
> Senior Fellow of the HEA (SFHEA)
> ACM Chapter Chair (Saudi Arabia)
> Associate Professor
> Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia
> http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~akoubaa
> http://wiki.coins-lab.org
> --------------------------------------------
>
>
> From: "Anis Koubaa (COINS) via ros-users" <ros-users at lists.ros.org>
> Reply-To: Anis Koubaa <akoubaa at coins-lab.org>, User discussions <
> ros-users at lists.ros.org>
> Date: Friday, December 18, 2015 at 8:42 PM
> To: <ros-users at lists.ros.org>
> Subject: [ros-users] ROS Web Services
>
> Hello,
>
> I have developed ROS Web Services to provide new abstractions to ROS using
> SOAP and REST Web services. The objective was to provide an additional
> software abstraction layer on top of ROS to allow a seamless interaction
> with ROS even for non-roboticians. We can say that ROS Web services is
> another alternative to rosbridge and rosjs which use the Web to interact
> with ROS.
>
> Using ROS Web services layer allow any developer with no background on
> robotics to develop Web service client (SOAP or REST) to monitor and
> control ROS-enabled robot through simple interfaces.
>
> A
> <http://joser.unibg.it/index.php?journal=joser&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=97>paper
> presenting ROS Web services
> <http://joser.unibg.it/index.php?journal=joser&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=97&path%5B%5D=30>
>  is published in The Journal of Software Engineering for Robotics. In the
> paper, I present an object-oriented design of software meta-models for the
> integration of both Web services into ROS and we validate it through a real
> implementation on a service robot. Implementation was performed using
> ROSJAVA under Hyrdo version.
>
> A video illustration is also available on this link
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvjY5XjAX7U>. A brief description is
> also available here <http://wiki.coins-lab.org/index.php?title=Mybot>.
>
> I still did not release the code due to lack of time, but should post it
> on GITHUB soon. Any comment on this will be welcome.
> We are working now on extending ROS Web services with new features and we
> plan to apply them in ROS-enabled drones.
>
> Thanks
> Anis
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Anis Koubaa, PhD.,
> Senior Fellow of the HEA (SFHEA)
> ACM Chapter Chair (Saudi Arabia)
> Associate Professor
> Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia
> http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~akoubaa
> http://wiki.coins-lab.org
> --------------------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________ ros-users mailing list
> ros-users at lists.ros.org http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users
>
> _______________________________________________
> ros-users mailing list
> ros-users at lists.ros.org
> http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ros.org/pipermail/ros-users/attachments/20160126/b85c92a1/attachment.html>