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This repository contains a barebones implementation of remote teleoperation of a ROS-based robot over the internet by using ROSlib. We create an HTTP server on the robot and run a rosnode on this server to publish and subscribe to relevant topics (e.g., image observations and control commands). Accessing this web server from other machines (non-ROS machines, mobile browser etc.) enables remotely controlling the robot over the internet.

• ROS (tested on kinetic)
• Python packages: http
• JavaScript

Launch multiple terminals/tmux/screen to run these processes independently. This assumes that the ROS master and other robot processes are already running. index.html has an example image subscriber and control publisher. Please fill the placeholders for the IP and ROS topic names in index.html.

python -m http.server <desired_port>

roslaunch rosbridge_server rosbridge_websocket.launch

Launch a web browser (tested with Safari, Chrome, Firefox) and navigate to <robot_ip_address:desired_port>