Overview

Just sketching some rough ideas to go forward with the app manager (early 2013).

Pairing and Concert Modes

This illustrates a possible workflow in which the app manager is configured to support both pairing (1-1) and concert modes side by side. The primary targets for this design include:

• Collapse pairing and concert modes on the same app manager mechanisms (namely the invite handle).

• Sandbox 1-1 connections in a public ros master on the robot.

Capabilities

Provide rules linking app requirements to abstracted capabilities instead of actual software packages or ros nodes.

Goals:

• More portable rapps.
• More flexible handling of hardware variation.
• Simpler authoring of launchers.

We are iterating the design on a google doc