Is there any working visual tool for working with ROS nodes for Melodic?
Recently I have seen a video where a guy named Karl Singline used Grasshopper for a Kuka robotic arm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8tf_...
It was very interesting to see how Grasshopper can connect some visual elements and in the end control a robotic arm. I have seen a video on which Grasshopper can work together with ROS, but projects like these are very rare: https://vimeo.com/180085909
I have found a similar project like Grasshopper, named VIKI: https://viki.readthedocs.io/
As the documentation says, its "development has started in 2014 at the University of Twente under funding of project Aeroworks" and "VIKI only supports Ubuntu as its platform and is tested on LTS versions 12.04 and 14.04. Other Ubuntu (and even Linux) distributions may work just as well, but are not supported." I have seen some mentions of Jade and Indigo in the documentation, and the github source was not refreshed since 2016, so I think the project was abandoned by its developers.
I wonder what happened with VIKI and if it can be used with Melodic? I will make a try in the upcoming weeks, and try to use it in my project. Are there any developers here who used for example VIKI? What was the issue with it? What other visual tools like VIKI or Grasshopper do you use in your projects?
I think I have found another one: https://mov.ai/technology/
Maybe boost is usable: https://medium.com/yonohub/boost-syst...
so you're looking for something like Labview/Simulink but then for ROS? Being able to compose boxes and arrows diagrams and have those either code-generated or configuration-generated to an application?
There are a few things which come to (my) mind:
There are various other MDE platforms (similar to Papyrus), but MDE goes a bit further than what Grashopper et al. do and can.