Description

This repository contains the remote control system of the robot.

Structure

• server/ contains the server side code written in javascript.
• dragon/ contains the driver program for dragon board.
• pi/ contains the driver program for pi

Usage

1. Clone this repo

2. Start the websocket server

• make sure you have node.js, express, ws installed
• cd to server/pages
• node server

3. Open browser

• localhost:3000

4. Build the robot code

• cd to dragon/
• mkdir build
• cd build
• cmake ..
• make
• cd ..

5. Run robot code

• in dragon/, sudo ./dragon ip

6. Navigate to browser and use WASD, IKJL to control robot motors.

7. Data from browser is sent to server, which can be seen from the terminal

in which you ran node server.

TODO

• Authenticate connections
• Auto-recover from exceptions
• Better UI
• Fix paging bug in the streaming server
• Use libjpeg-turbo to compress image
• Enable more threads on the robot
• Auto wifi probing

compile dependency

cmake, swig, pkgconfig, pthreads

prepare environment

''' ./bootstrap [with cmake configure option here] '''

compile

''' cd dragon mkdir build cd build cmake .. '''

run

sudo LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib [command]