Use Robot Commander over the network to go to waypoints

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If navigation is not running, launch it:

roslaunch magni_demos simple_navigation.launch

Robot Commander has two versions: One for the Android phone, and one for a workstation.

Robot Commander

To use an Android phone:

1. Turn the robot on.
2. If you haven’t, install the Robot Commander app on your Android phone. Download it on your phone at “https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrlandau.robotcmdr”.
3. On the phone, in Settings/WiFi, connect to the network (that is, the SSID) that you connected to in the section Connecting the Robot to Your Network, above.
4. Start the Robot Commander app.
   Continue with #6 below.

To use a workstation

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Set a waypoint and go there

• You can move the robot in the same way as you did in the Robot Commander section above. To set waypoints you must have set up fiducial markers as in the section on fiducials above.
• Tap the Microphone to use speech.
• Say waypoint alpha. You can use any name you like for a waypoint, but the phonetic alphabet is convenient as it is, by design, easily understood.
• Robot Commander will ask whether it has understood the waypoint name. Assuming that it has,
• Check the waypoint with the voice command list waypoints.
• Now you can move the robot to some other location in the area.
• The voice command go to alpha will now cause the robot to go to the waypoint you established, and to face in the same direction it was when you set the waypoint.
• You can remove a waypoint with the voice command remove waypoint alpha.