Rover Telemetry UI: MQTT Client UI for Rover

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Description

Rover Telemetry UI (rover-telemetry-ui) is designed to communicate with multi-agent rovers using MQTT protocol over cloud. It is built with node.js as a web application and it is used for reactive MQTT communication. Rover Telemery UI is shown below:

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Operation

Upon connection, rover-telemetry-ui subscribes to topic rover/<roverID>/telemetry, which is redirected from telemetry topic on the Eclipse Hono side.

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telemetry topic retrieves sensor and core usage information in following format:

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     {
             "gy521":{
                     "accel":{
                             "x":-1,
                             "y":-1,
                             "z":-1
                     },
                     "angle":{
                             "x":-35.264389038085938,
                             "y":-35.264389038085938,
                             "z":-54.735610961914062
                     },
                     "gyro":{
                             "x":-1,
                             "y":-1,
                             "z":-1
                     }
             },
             "hmc5883l":{
                     "bearing":47.366317749023438
             },
             "infrared":{
                     "frontleft":100.0,
                     "frontright":100.0,
                     "rearleft":100.0,
                     "rearright":100.0
             },
             "ultrasonic":{
                     "front":0.0,
                     "rear":0.0
             },
             "cores":{
                     "core0":55.099998474121094,
                     "core1":100.0,
                     "core2":100.0,
                     "core3":18.899999618530273
             }
     }

If connected, driving buttons can be used to send telemetry data to rover. This message is published to rover/<roverID>/RoverDriving/control topic in the following format:

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{
             "mode":<int mode>,
             "command":<char command>,
             "speed":<int speed>
}

"speed" entry is an integer value between 360 (lowest speed) and 480 (highest speed) for the rover.

"command" entry indicates many integrated functions, such as the ones listed below:

  • F → Stop Movement

  • Q → Go Forward-Left

  • W → Go Forward

  • E → Go Forward-Right

  • A → Go Backward-Left

  • S → Go Backward

  • D → Go Backward-Right

  • J → Turn Left On Spot

  • K → Turn Right On Spot

  • R → Shutdown Rover

In rover-telemetry-ui only "mode":0 is supported, which indicated manual driving.

Using rover-telemetry-ui

Note

Project is hosted in the repository: https://github.com/app4mc-rover/rover-telemetry-ui.git.

To download:

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git clone https://github.com/app4mc-rover/rover-telemetry-ui.git

To download dependencies (If you don’t have node.js installed, first install node.js):

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cd rover-telemetry-ui
sudo npm install net connect serve-static http socket.io express path mqtt

To run the server:

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cd scripts/
sudo node start_rovertelemetryui.js

Finally, go to your web browser and find the page at http://<your host address>:5055/rovertelemetryui.html.