This is one of the sister repository to the ROS and the QtQuick-based GUI of the 'Free-play Sandbox' experimental framework for Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction research.
This repository contains a CGI server and a web interface to control the Free-play sandox experiment: start/stop nodes; manipulation of the QtQuick interface; recording of participants.
The web interface is made of a FastCGI server to bridge ROS with a web application, and a HTML GUI that allow the experimenter to control the experiment from a web browser.
First, install the ROS and QtQuick-based GUI.
Then, install the dependencies (and a web-server):
> sudo apt install python-flup python-jinja2 nginx
Then:
> git clone https://github.com/severin-lemaignan/freeplay-sandbox-supervisor.git
> cd freeplay-sandbox-supervisor
> mkdir build && cd build
> cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
> make install
Finally, configure your webserver. Assuming nginx:
> sudo cp share/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/freeplay_sandbox_supervisor
> sudo service nginx restart
(you might want to change the configuration to use a different port -- 80 by default)
> rosrun freeplay_sandbox_supervisor supervisor
Then point a webbrowser to your server. For instance, locally: http://localhost:80