ROS-Mobile

ROS-Mobile

About this app

ROS-Mobile is an Android application designed for dynamic control and visualization of mobile robotic system operated by the Robot Operating System (ROS). The application uses ROS nodes initializing publisher and subscriber with standard ROS messages. The overall code architecture pattern is Model View ViewModel (MVVM), which stabilizes the application and makes it highly customizable.

If you use ROS-Mobile for your research, please cite
@article{rottmann2020ros,
title={ROS-Mobile: An Android application for the Robot Operating System},
author={Rottmann, Nils and Studt, Nico and Ernst, Floris and Rueckert, Elmar},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.02781},
year={2020}
}

For further details have a look onto our GitHub page (search for ROS-Mobile)

Ratings and reviews

Please add the ability to use AlphaNumerics in the master address input. I literally cannot connect using a hostname because of this issue. I love this app otherwise. But please this is a super simple change. I've even tried copying and pasting by address into the field and it wont keep any a-Z characters. Will gladly change to 5 stars after this is fixed! Many ros robots use hostnames rather than IP. Literally lines 41-48 of your master_fragment.xml file.

A help to others, even though everything is correct, you should edit all textboxes to trigger updates of strings (like delete the last character of strings to 192.168.1. and type 192.168.1.33 back,) and then it succesfully connects.

I really love the idea, congratulations on finally developing an Android interface to ros ! I'm giving 5 stars even though it dit not work with me because I trust you will improve. My app could not connect to a master. In the master PC (I'm using noetic), I've set: ROS_IP ROS_MASTER_URI ROS_HOSTNAME all correctly, but still did not work :(

What's new

Version 2.1: New Widgets (RqtPlot, Battery, LaserScan, ...) and Bug Fixes