CallARobot

A simple web interface to call a robot

Installation

run sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

Start Server

• run as WEBSOCKET_URL="wss://lcas.lincoln.ac.uk/rasberry/ws" python callarobot.py

Start Client (usues ROS if available)

• run as WEBSOCKET_URL="wss://lcas.lincoln.ac.uk/rasberry/ws" python ws_client.py

Using as ROS Client

The demo client ws_client will start as ROS node if it find rospy module

• rostopic echo /car_client/get_states returns a JSON string looking something like this on every state change:

  data: '{"states": {"marc": "INIT"}, "_id": "13ed12d2-a398-4bdc-95e4-27a4563fddfe"
    , "method": "update_orders"}'
  

• rostopic echo /car_client/get_gps returns a JSON string looking something like this on every gps update change:

  data: '{"lat": 53.232973799999996, "_id": "578a0829-1fec-4843-9e2d-6f82136058b5",
     "method": "update_position", "long": -0.5458096000000001, "user": "marc"
    }'
  

• set a state, by publishing a JSON string to /car_client/set_state: e.g.

  rostopic pub /car_client/set_states std_msgs/String "data: '{\"user\": \"marc\", \"state\": \"CALLED\"}'"
  

Apache config

<Location /rasberry/car>
    SSLRequireSSL
    SetEnv proxy-initial-not-pooled
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    ProxyPass http://localhost:8127/car
    ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:8127/rasberry/car
</Location>

<LocationMatch "/rasberry/car/ws">
    SSLRequireSSL
    ProxyPassMatch ws://localhost:8128/ disablereuse=On
    ProxyPassReverse ws://localhost:8128/
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    #LogLevel Debug
</LocationMatch>