This package provides an rqt_robot_dashboard for the Scitos robot. The dashboard displays motor and battery status, and allows the motors to be stopped or free-run enabled.
This should not require any additional packages to be installed...
On your off-robot pc:
export ROS_MASTER_URI=http://bob:11311 # or not-bob
rosrun scitos_dashboard scitos_dashboard
This brings up a small dashboard window, which is an rqt docking pane:
From left to right, the widgets are:
- Diagnostics: this provides information about the hardware of the robot - see http://www.ros.org/wiki/robot_monitor?distro=groovy for info.
- ROS Console: provides a view of all ros console (INFO, DEBUG, WARN etc) messages, with optional filters - see http://www.ros.org/wiki/rqt_console
- Motor Status: Clicking this allows you to select free run, or stop the motors. If it is green, then the robot is ok to drive but can't be pushed; if it is yellow then it is in free run and can be pushed; if it is red then the motor stop is enabled and must be reset before it can drive.
- Battery Status: This shows the battery state as percentage in a tooltip, and changes icon when plugged in.
- Robot Mileage in metres