Using Rosbridge and Roslib JS

06 Mar 2016

ROS

The Robot Operating system (ROS) was originally developped by Willow Garage …

Why Rosbridge ?

ROS is already a versatile piece of software offering a native C++ library as well as extensive bindings for python. However, other scripting/programming languages cannot directly benefit from the implementation of the ROS communication protocol as it is the case for Javascript or Java. Rosbridge was developed to fill that gap.

####Pros

Uses generic network protocols (TCP, Websockets)
Connects web interfaces to the ROS network.
Offers throttling, queueing optimizations. ####Cons
Breaks ROS’ decentralized network architecture.

Roslib JS

var ros = new ROSLIB.Ros({
 url: 'ws://localhost:9090'
})