Gazebo GUI : Graphical interfaces for robotics applications

Maintainer: jenn [AT] openrobotics [DOT] org

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Gazebo GUI builds on top of Qt to provide widgets which are useful when developing robotics applications, such as a 3D view, plots, dashboard, etc, and can be used together in a convenient unified interface.

Gazebo GUI ships with several widgets ready to use and offers a plugin interface which can be used to add custom widgets.

Table of Contents

Features

Install

Usage

Documentation

Folder Structure

Contributing

Code of Conduct

Versioning

License

Features

• Qt-based widgets, with support for both Qt5 widgets and QtQuick
• Plugin-based interface, so it's easy to add new widgets
• Several plugins ready to be used
• 3D scene integration using Gazebo Rendering

Install

See the installation tutorial.

Usage

Take a look at the tutorials for usage instructions and API documentation.

Known issue of command line tools

In the event that the installation is a mix of Debian and from source, command line tools from gz-tools may not work correctly.

A workaround for a single package is to define the environment variable GZ_CONFIG_PATH to point to the location of the Gazebo library installation, where the YAML file for the package is found, such as

export GZ_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/share/gz

Multiple paths can be specified using the : delimiter. For example,

export GZ_CONFIG_PATH=/user/local/share/gz/:/path/to/some/other/location

Folder Structure

• include/gz/gui: Contains all the files which will be installed, such as C++ headers, .qrc, .qss and qml files. Plugin-specific resources go under /plugins; everything in the top-level is meant to be of common use across plugins.

• src: Contains all the C++ source code and headers which are not installed. Plugin-specific code goes under /plugins.

• test: All integration, performance and regression tests go here, under their specific folders.

• examples/standalone: Example code for standalone applications using Gazebo GUI as a library. Each example has instructions in a README file.

• examples/config: Example configuration files which can be loaded using gz gui -c <path to file>

• examples/plugin: Example plugins which can be compiled and loaded as explained in this tutorial.

• tutorials: Markdown files for the tutorials.

• conf: Files needed by gz-tools.

• doc: Files used by Doxygen when generating documentation.

Contributing

Please see the contribution guide.

Code of Conduct

Please see CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md.

Versioning

This library uses Semantic Versioning. Additionally, this library is part of the Gazebo project which periodically releases a versioned set of compatible and complimentary libraries. See the Gazebo website for version and release information.

License

This library is licensed under Apache 2.0. See also the LICENSE file.