rowboat-GUI

This is the operator/playback GUI for Brooklyn's Diamond Reef Explorer's autonomous underwater vehicle, Rowboat-1. The project is currently in its planning and design phase. If you'd like help out, no matter what your skills, join our meetup group at http://www.meetup.com/Tech-Tinkerers-NYC.

Dev Setup

Mac/Linux Setup

0. Install VirtualBox from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
1. Install Vagrant from https://www.vagrantup.com
2. vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
3. Install Git from https://git-scm.com
4. Checkout the project with Git
5. vagrant up (this might take a few)
6. vagrant ssh
7. /vagrant/base-install.sh
8. source ~/.bashrc
9. If you’re new to ROS, follow the tutorials at http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials

Windows Setup

1. Install VirtualBox from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
2. Download Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop from http://www.ubuntu.com
3. Create a new Linux 64-bit VM and follow the steps to install your downloaded Ubuntu image.
4. sudo apt-get install git
5. git clone https://github.com/Seanmatthews/rowboat-GUI.git
6. From the rowboat-GUI/install directory, run ./base-install.sh
7. source ~/.bashrc
8. If you’re new to ROS, follow the tutorials at http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials

Startup

1. roscore
2. For testing with video file roslaunch gscam videofile.launch FILENAME:=<filename.mp4>
3. To visualize the stream rosrun image_view image_view image:=/videofile/camera/image_raw

Installing additional ROS packages

ros-packages-install.sh has additional packages like the web-video-server. To install:

./ros-packages-install.sh
source ~/.bashrc

Problems?

Check out the problems file.

Webcam (this doesn't work)

The webcam won't appear in Vagrant by default. Follow these instructions:

http://code-chronicle.blogspot.com/2014/08/connect-usb-device-through-vagrant.html

Then, outside of Vagrant, VBoxManage list usbhost should return the webcam. Within vagrant, lsusb should also return the webcam.

Web Video Server

To get a video running, you can use web_video_server.

 roslaunch gscam videofile.launch FILENAME:=<filename.mp4> 
 rosrun web_video_server web_video_server