Features

VIKI aims at making software for robotics easier to run and exchange between the community.

Currently supported

VIKI supports a wide set of features

• Build a graphical model of your robot software with modules based on ROS
• Save/Open build canvas models
• Add extra commandline options to modules on the canvas
• Extend functionality by easily creating your own modules
• Export your build model to a launch file
• Automatically launch nodes on a different machine with SSH

Of course, VIKI supports (at least the basic) functionality of ROS features.

• Supply parameters for launch, which can be edited directly in the GUI as well
• Dependency management on the modules, based on rosdep, rospack and git repositories
• Many2Many communication between modules, also to be edited easily in the GUI

Future goals

VIKI is continuing to be improved and different features get added constantly. Functionality that has not made it yet to its release includes

• Communication via services
• Communication via topics that are not created by nodes in VIKI
• ROS multimaster support

We’re working on bringing these features into VIKI as well! If there’s any functionality you would like to see, contact The developers and we will (most likely) help you out quickly!