Microservices for Pulurobotics platforms

The repository contains:

• Microservice for relaying commands to Pulurobot platfrom via TCP connection and Socket.IO
• Microservice for transmitting robot's state changes
• Microservice for observing map data and notifying changes in the map data
• Microservice for routing based on map data, and for notifying about new routes

Different version of Pulurobot version 1 has been tagged.

Installation

To install the middleware on a Pulurobotics platform robot:

cd $HOME
mkdir middleware
cd middleware

Download Node.JS version 11 or newer for ARMv8 (https://nodejs.org/en/download/current/) and unpack it into the middleware directory.

Install the middleware and dependencies:

export PATH="$PATH:/home/hrst/middleware/node-[VERSION]/bin"
cd $HOME/middleware
git clone https://github.com/TheSoftwareFactory/pulurobotics-microservices
cd pulurobotics-microservices/map-middleware
npm install -g
cd ../command-middleware
npm install -g
cd ../pathFinder
npm install -g

Install the forever package:

npm install -g forever

Edit the start_middleware.sh script to set the path to the Node.JS bin folder.

Edit the configurations for command-middleware and map-middleware to correspond to the correct paths and IP addresses.

Arrange for start_middleware.sh to be run on boot (e.g. in /etc.rc.local).