navigator_UserInterface

A User Interface application for controlling the Smart_navigator

Prerequisites

Complete setup of Smart_navigator or the cartographer_navigator.

Setup

sudo apt-get install python-tk # To install tkinter

git clone https://github.com/shiva-raj-km/navigator_UserInterface.git
# Copy the Python scripts to scripts folder in navigator_bringup package.

Usage

The main script is gui.py which runs the launch files. It has login page, bot control page with start & stop button to run the launch files. The python_launch.py script is a file used to run the launch files using python script.

The navigator can be controlled using the system, at this time only roscore and server.py should be run in terminals.

References

• Python Tkinter To develop GUI.
• Python roslaunch API To run launch files using Python script.
• ROS Workspace Overlay When using two workspaces, but automation is required.
• ROS Network For server-client operation.