Developing applications

Overview

There are many ways to program new behaviours on PAL’s robots:

• no-code behaviours creation let you design simple presentations and interaction without write any code. Learn more here.

• You can also program behaviours with Python or C++. PAL’s robots comes with a simple tool to generate behaviour skeletons that you can adjust to your needs. Learn more here.

• PAL’s robots is entirely based on the open-source ROS framework. If you are familiar with ROS, you might want to directly check Developing with ROS.

General documentation

• Creating no-code demos and presentations
• Introduction to robot app programming
• Developing with ROS
• Intents
• Accessing the robot’s capabilities from javascript
• Visual programming

Tutorials

• Tutorial: ARI’s “Hello world”
• Tutorial: Creating a simple multi-modal interaction
• Tutorial: Build and run a new ROS package
• Tutorial: Deploying ROS packages on the robot
• Create an application with pal_app

How-to

• Developing with the SDK Docker image and ROS
• Deploying a Docker image on the robot

FAQ

• Can I compile my nodes in a ROS Docker container, and run it on the robot?

• How do I communicate between containers?

• What method should I use to debug inside a container?

• How can I automatically launch an application at start up?

References

• REST interface

The Developing with ROS page gives access to the full ROS API reference.