poppy-monitor

Web tool to monitor and pilot poppy project robot.

It uses Rest API to communicate with the Robot instance. Not compatible, for the moment, with trunk version of pypot, please use the branch bumblebee/pypot. Should now be compatible with the last version of pypot

Allows to watch un realtime temperature, position of the motors, provide a visual and audible alarm when motors are to hot, etc. ...

It also allows you to control the robot:

• Start, stop, execute methods and edit properties of Privitives attached to the Robot instance
• Set the motors compliant/not compliant
• Move motors with the mouse (drag/scroll on motor block)

How to use it

Clone the project on your computer, or copy it to your odroid (in /etc/www/web/ if you are using the apache configured with poppy_install script).

The Poppy HTTP Rest service should be running. For example in a console:

poppy-services --http poppy-humanoid

or in a python script:

from poppy.creatures import PoppyHumanoid

robot = PoppyHumanoid(use_http=True, start_services=True)

Open the index.html file in your browser, click on the red broken link (near the title) and configure the rest api url, for example http://poppy.local:8080. If the url is correct and the rest server is running the link will goes green and informations about your robot should appear.

How to define and monitor a new type of pypot driven robot

• Add the image(s) youses to preview your robot in the ''img'' folder (you can have one picture with both the image of the robot, and the links to motor blocks or 2 transparent pictures that you can be superposed)
• Create a css file for your robot in css directory (you can use monitor-humanoid.css as example and modify it :
  • Modify the .poppy_picture definition to have the model image of your robot as you want.
  • Add a line like #motor_<motor_name>{top:520px; left:150px;} for each motor of your robot to define the position of the motor block on your picture (you can use your browser's devtools to help you define it).
• Copy the poppy-humanoid.html to poppy-<your_robot>.html and modify it :
  • Change the css import <link href="css/monitor-humanoid.css" rel="stylesheet"> at the begining of the file to point to the file you have created/
• Edit the index.html to link to your new robot monitor.

Licence

GNU GPL v3