Project contains QT-based application written to control a small homemade rover. Rover is based on microcontroller and communicates over ESP8266 using network sockets. This app starts up a TCP server which, once connected with the rover, can visualize data from on-board sensors, monitor system events on the rover or steer it around. More complex functionality includes mission planning, where rover can (remotely) be instructed to perform series of tasks on a given timeline while reporting outcome back through this app (this functionality is supported by the rover and timed on-board, not through app).
GUI is now in integration-testing phase (with the rover) and some of the screen shots can be seen below:
'Overview' tab giving most important info
'Instruments' tab showing plot of IMU sensor data
'Instruments' tab showing individual platform modules
'Mission planner' tab
'Engines data' tab
Note: This is mostly educational project, so some parts of the code might be considered "reinventing the wheel" but were made in order to get a better understanding of coding principles and practices :)
This project relies on following freely available libraries available on github:
- QtOpenCVViewerGl - QT Widget used for rendering OpenCV images (renders all graphs and visualizations seen in the UI)
- ocvGraph - OpenCV library wrote specifically for plotting graphs; developed as a part of this project