API2

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The new API2 is currently under development. The main new features are

  • Support for up to 4 cameras
  • Support for camera controls like brightness, contrast, auto white balance ... The supported controls depend on the camera used
  • Integrated web server for controlling Robotino by a web browser or your smartphone
  • Easy build process due to minimal dependencies to external libraries

The new API2 is based on a RPC like infrastructure. The REC-RPC library is a interprocess communication middleware similar to ROS. It is based on Qt and does not have any other dependencies.


Building API2 from source

Get the source via SVN:

svn co http://svn.openrobotino.org/api/trunk source/api

Configure the build environment with cmake, build and install:

mkdir build/api
cd build/api
ccmake ../../source/api
make install

On Windows: In case you used a 32bit compiler set the environment variable ROBOTINOAPI2_32_DIR to the installation directory. When you compiled the library with a 64bit compiler set the environment variable ROBOTINOAPI2_64_DIR The environment variable is used by the other packages to find the FindRobotinoApi.cmake scripts. Example: On my system I got

ROBOTINOAPI2_32_DIR=E:\build\robotino_api_win32_vc100\install

On Linux:

make ALL_CREATE_INSTALLER
sudo dpkg -i robotino-api-*.deb

Building the API2 examples on Robotino

mkdir -p build/circle
cd build/circle
ccmake /usr/local/robotino/examples/src/c++/circle/
configure(c) 2x, generate(g)
make
target/example_circle 127.0.0.1

Build Robotino tools and daemons

Windows:

  • Get the latest Qt libraries from Digia
  • Alternatively build Qt from source

Linux:

  • Install libqt4-dev

Build REC-RPC

Get the source via SVN:

svn co http://svn.servicerobotics.eu/rec_rpc/trunk source/rec_rpc

Configure the build environment with cmake, build and install:

mkdir build/rec_rpc
cd build/rec_rpc
ccmake ../../source/rec_rpc
make install

On Windows: In case you used a 32bit compiler set the environment variable RECRPC32_DIR to the installation directory. When you compiled the library with a 64bit compiler set the environment variable RECRPC64_DIR The environment variable is used by the other packages to find the FindRecRpc.cmake scripts. Example: On my system I got

RECRPC32_DIR=E:\build\rec-rpc_win32_vc100\install

On Linux:

make ALL_CREATE_INSTALLER
sudo dpkg -i rec-rpc-*.deb

Build Robotino Common

Get the source via SVN:

svn co http://svn.openrobotino.org/common/trunk source/common

Configure the build environment with cmake, build and install:

mkdir build/common
cd build/common
ccmake ../../source/common
make install

On Windows: In case you used a 32bit compiler set the environment variable ROBOTINOCOMMON32_DIR to the installation directory. When you compiled the library with a 64bit compiler set the environment variable ROBOTINOCOMMON64_DIR The environment variable is used by the other packages to find the FindRobotinoCommon.cmake scripts. Example: On my system I got

ROBOTINOCOMMON32_DIR=E:\build\robotino_common_win32_vc100\install

On Linux:

make ALL_CREATE_INSTALLER
sudo dpkg -i robotino-common-*.deb

Build Robotino Daemons

Get the source via SVN:

svn co http://svn.openrobotino.org/daemons/trunk source/daemons

Configure the build environment with cmake, build and install:

mkdir build/daemons
cd build/daemons
ccmake ../../source/daemons
make install