The robot_gui package

Author: Andres Alamo

Date: September 2023

Description PENDING

This package creates a graphical user interface similar to the below image. The GUI has 4 sections that are:

1. Display received messages of robot's info
2. Control the robot movement by buttons
3. Tracking the current position of the robot
4. Request the travelled distance

Usage

• Clone to your ROS workspace
• Compile and source: cd ~/catkin_ws; catkin_make; source devel/setup.bash
• Prepare the robot:

roslaunch mir_gazebo mir_maze_world.launch
rosservice call /gazebo/unpause_physics

• Make sure roscore is running
• Execute:

rosrun robot_info agv_robot_info_node
rosrun distance_tracker_service distance_tracker_service
rosrun robot_gui robot_gui_node

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distance_tracker provides a service of distance travelled

agv_robot_info_node provides 8 messages about the robot

License

• BSD-3-Clause
• CVUI Library: Copyright (c) 2016 Fernando Bevilacqua. Licensed under the MIT license.

Dependencies

• ROS Noetic
• OpenCV
• CVUI