Proj-2013-2014-RobAIR-1

Introduction

Project RobAIR

Team

• Tutors : Didier Donsez,Amr Alyafi

• Members : Augustin Husson, Jérôme Barbier

• Departement : RICM 4, Polytech Grenoble

Project objectives

• transit command message beetween two devices by webRTC protocol
• use webRTC to etablish connection and send/receive message
• create graphic interface to control the robot

Related documents

How to prepare your project before starting coding like whale : here

Progress of the project

The project started January 14th, 2013.

Week 1 (January 13th - Janurary 19th)

• Project discovery
• Research of related projects

Week 2 (January 20th - Janurary 26th)

• Development of team goals
• Get a kit to assemble Air-Rob
• Initialize the assembly phase of the robot in partnership with the team of David Levayer and Paul Marriage
• Search on "how to make a skype plugin"
• First attempt to run via java skype: skype must currently be run with a graphical interface for the java code works.
• Search how Skype is used to

Week 3 (January 27th - February 2nd)

• Assembly of two new RobAIRs --> just one for the moment
• Beginning of the redaction of Software Requirements Specification
• ROS environment installed on Ubuntu and work
• RobAIR can now move by itself ! (debug in progress)
• Meeting with Amr Alyafi (effective code obtained)

Week 4 (February 3th - February 7th)

• Fixe Skype objectif with M. Donsez
• We try to run the code from previous years (we can't understand how their project could work with so many mistakes...)
• Now robair can speak with keyboards press
• Graphique interface is working but we can't control robair with this. (Debug in progress)

Week 5 (February 10th - February 14th)

• Bug with control and webcam connexion (client try to connect himself but he can't be connected to the server)
• Meeting with M. Donsez because we are so in late to realized this project : Finaly we modify us subject --> skype can't worked because code is closed so we are going to use "WebRTC".
• RobAIR works!
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5XhrDY0tFI&feature=youtu.be

Week 6 (February 17th - February 21th)

• Change ROS version, from Hydro to Fuerte cause of new udpate of some packages and with these new packages we can't use some library.
• Correct so many bug of the last project, see http://air.imag.fr/index.php/Proj-2013-2014-RobAIR-1/getStarted
• WebRTC is a new technology so we don't have any documentations : if you want to used webRTC in C++ follow these instructions : http://www.webrtc.org/reference/getting-started/ (in progress)

Week 7 (February 24th - February 28th)

• We try to understand how webRTC works.
• Native api in chrome and mozilla
• Realization of little application using webRTC : we can catch the webcam of use browser (here mozilla, but it can works on chrome)
• We begin to understand how connection between two browser works (the connection is not realized, not yet !)

Week 8 (March 3rd - march 7th)

• We realize connection beetween two browers with webRTC
• Install robair simulator (turtle) and change the source code to move the robot with w,s,a,d
• We try to send some data (data, audio or video) by webRTC but it fail (debug in progress)

Week 9 (March 10th- march 14th)

• Create git account
• Performed our first application
• Continue to try to understand how webRTC connection work

Week 10 (March 17th- march 21th)

• webRTC connection success !! we can exchange data (for the moment only text data) beetween two browsers
• We are in late so we decided to separate our works : Augustin work on webRTC and Jerome work on ROS node
• Add a little css for our website
• Add video stream exchange !! and it's work so good !! --> BIG PROBLEM : IT'S DON'T WORK WHEN ROS IS LAUCH... (debug in progress)

Week 11 (March 24th- march 28th)

• We can shutdown the video stream but can't reload it (debug in progress...)
• Add ROS folder
• Add pyton server to communicate with ROBAIR and our website : it's work so good !!
• Add all buttons for voices actions

Week 12 (March 31th- April 4th)

• Try to do a multiple client connetion in the same conversation (debug in progress...)
• Improve design of webSite
• Add joystick buttons to control ROBAIR.
• All work good! We can create a channel with video stream, lauch ros (the video is good now), control robair, dialog...
• Complete this web page and SRS

Week 13 (March 7th- April 11th)

• in progress