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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Igor, that looks very very cool. It’s super neat that you can edit the URDF on the fly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dereck, If you are interested in joining the group of people working on robot web interfaces we would love to have you! There are quite a few people participating in this.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Brown made it easy to communicate with robots over web sockets via rosbridge: (<a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosbridge">http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosbridge</a>) this tool has now been upgraded and a hardened version now exists: (http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosbridge_suite)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Bosch worked on making a first WebGL frontend bosch_web_visualization (http://www.ros.org/wiki/wviz) as part of our remote lab project (http://pr2-remotelab.com/)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This work has now expanded into a large community effort which is very exciting: http://robotwebtools.org/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>WPI: recently released a lovely robot management system RMS (<a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/rms">http://www.ros.org/wiki/rms</a>) that allows you to do really powerful things including user studies and user management as part of their RobotsFor.Me (<a href="https://robotsfor.me/">https://robotsfor.me/</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>There was a roscon talk about this last year (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hiUPMC-3KE) and there will be another one this year at 9am on May 12 (<a href="http://roscon.ros.org/2013/?page_id=14">http://roscon.ros.org/2013/?page_id=14</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In addition, although I don’t have links companies like ClearPath Robotics and Yujin Robotics have also been working in this space and making contributions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen<br><br><b>Sarah Osentoski<br><br></b>Robert Bosch LLC</span><span style='color:#1F497D'> <br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Research and Technology Center<br>4005 Miranda Avenue, Suite 200<br>Palo Alto, CA 94304</span><span style='color:#1F497D'> <br><a href="http://www.boschresearch.com/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>www.BoschResearch.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Phone: +1 650 320-2969</span><span style='color:#1F497D'> <br><a href="mailto:sarah.osentoski@us.bosch.com"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>sarah.osentoski@us.bosch.com</span></a> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ros-users-bounces@code.ros.org [mailto:ros-users-bounces@code.ros.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dereck Wonnacott<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 29, 2013 6:23 AM<br><b>To:</b> User discussions<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ros-users] Simple URDF viewer<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Indeed, very cool! <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I've toyed with the idea of making a webgl version of rviz so that you can just open up a web browser and control your robot without needing to install ROS or even linux on your computer. I just tested this app on the latest version of chrome for android on a nexus 10 and Razr and it worked pretty well even! I can't move the 'camera' by touching and dragging but I can manipulate the joint angles and such. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I think this just hit my todo list. :)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>~Dereck<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” - Michelangelo<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Igor <<a href="mailto:reinadesu@gmail.com" target="_blank">reinadesu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<br>I've created simple URDF viewer. My aim is to be able to view and<br>debug robot models directly in a (modern) browser.<br><br>Viewer is available at:<br><a href="http://mymodelrobot.appspot.com/" target="_blank">http://mymodelrobot.appspot.com/</a><br>I've put Pi Robot by Patrick Goebel as a demo robot.<br><br>At the moment the app is capable of parsing urdf robot into 3D model<br>visible in browser with movable joints. It does not read or show STL<br>files yet.<br><br>Currently I am working on animating robot by trajectory from text file.<br><br>I hope this project will be useful for someone. If you want to<br>contribute, fork the project from:<br><a href="https://github.com/AdoHaha/modelrobot" target="_blank">https://github.com/AdoHaha/modelrobot</a><br><br>Igor Zubrycki<br>_______________________________________________<br>ros-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ros-users@code.ros.org">ros-users@code.ros.org</a><br><a href="https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users" target="_blank">https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>