idiap-robot-toolkit 0.6.2

Idiap's Robot Toolkit

Idiap Robot Toolkit

A toolkit to handle robots with Python.

Installation

The Idiap Robot Toolkit is available on PyPi and can be installed via pip:

$ pip install idiap-robot-toolkit

When using Qt6 through PySide6, install it with conda:

(base) $ conda create -y -n irt python=3.11 pip pyside6
(base) $ conda activate irt
(irt) $ pip install idiap-robot-toolkit
# or
(irt) $ pip install -e .

Using the Wizard-of-Oz GUI

The qi_robot_wizard executable launches a GUI to control Pepper.

qi_robot_wizard --robot pepper --name myapp --scenario resources/yes-no.ini --tablet resources/images/

with for instance the following resources/yes-no.ini file

[yes]

yes: Yes, indeed!
definitely: Definitely yes!
sure: Yes, for sure!

[no]

afraid: I am afraid not!
impossible: Unfortunately, that won't be possible
no: Absolutely not.

and the following images (which will be copied on the robot to /home/nao/.local/share/PackageManager/apps/myapp/html)

pepper-images/
├── black.png
├── green.png
├── idiap-1600.png
└── mummer-logo.png

renders the following GUI

Using the API

Folder examples contains some Python scripts on how to use the toolkit.

# NAO_IP being defined as en env variable
robot = irt.Pepper()
robot.wake_up()
robot.say("Hello! I am Pepper.")
_, frame = robot.get_frame()