Building dashboard client for ROSARIA, any suggestions?

[Peng Tang]

Hello all,

             We are two students doing an internship for Adept at Fordham university. We plan on building a rosaria dashboard client(instead of command line publish velocity topics), so that people who are new to ROS and rosaria can easily manipulate the pioneer robots. It will be similar to the aria demo to facilitate easy use.  People will knowledge of aria tools will find this similarity to be quite useful.  

             We currently plan to add features like using the arrow keys to teleop the robot, post the robot status on the terminal etc. This way, it will be much easier to break in a new robot when switching from aria to rosaria.  Are there any comments or suggestions that you would think would improve our program? thanks

[Alex R]

Hi,

I would recommend adding the robot battery and laptop battery status if possible just like the turtlebot dashboard. 

Good luck with your project. Looking forward to the dashboard when its released in ROS.

Regards

Alex