[ros-users] RFC: rviz on Android

Dave Hershberger hersh at willowgarage.com
Fri Apr 20 18:00:44 UTC 2012


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>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
>
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:37 AM, blackstag <blackstag at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dave when this happens let me know I can see how we can help you with
>> some resources from the DPRG.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Dave Hershberger <
>> hersh at willowgarage.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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