How to use?


As ROSWeb is a tool for ROS (Robot Operation System), it depends on a machine running the roscore process. It is a web application and it depends on websockets provided by rosbridge server. Until now, it is being developed and tested using Google Chrome browser.

Install RosbridgeSuite package and WebVideoServer

$ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-rosbridge-suite
$ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-web-video-server

Install dependencies

$ rosdep update
$ rosdep install rosbridge_server
$ rosdep install web_video_server

Launch rosbridge websocket server and web video server

$ roslaunch rosbridge_server rosbridge_websocket.launch
$ rosrun web_video_server web_video_server

Open the working demo page (or download it to your computer) and connect to your ROS server (usually ws://localhost:9090)


Working demo page


Follow our demonstration guide to see how it can be useful for your application.

Applications Demo