Web Joystick using Flask server and roslibjs

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Dependencies:

• Python: tornado, mongo-python-driver, flask, flaskcompress
• ROS - rosauth, rosbridge_suite

Link to roslibjs tutorials - http://wiki.ros.org/roslibjs

Usage of this project

• This is a ROS catkin workspce. After buliding the workspace using catkin_make,run the launchfile - roslaunch rosbridge_server rosbridge_websocket.launch
• Next host the website by running the joy_gui/main.py file, developed using flask. It will host the joy stick @ http://0.0.0.0:5000

More Info

• Source your preferred workspace and run the rosbridge_websocket.launch of rosbridge_server package
  • This acts as a bridge between the website & ROS master and you will be able to use any feature of ROS in that workspace.
• We now have to host a web server which provides a backend for our joystick template
  • Python Flask is an awesome tool for hosting small server and is easy to use
  • roslibjs has almost all features that rospy has, enabling us to create a UI for remotely operating our bot