Virtual Robot Content Organizer

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This page applies to 2017 onwards Tritium robots, for earlier Tritium robots please see Virtual Robot - Transferring Content, for IOServe based robots please see Virtual Robot - Transferring Content (IOServe)

The Virtual Robot Interface

Introduction

Virtual Robot provides a simple to use but powerful web based tool for content creation on Engineered Arts robots like RoboThespian and SociBot.

The Content Organizer is used to arrange touch screen and Telepresence content, add button images and text labels; transfer new performances and synchronise updates to performances with your robot, even while the robot is switched off.

Accessing the Content Organizer

The content organizer can be accessed from the Robot Management System:

Robot Management System

Serial number of robot - when robot is ONLINE this becomes a link. Click the link to open the robot's Tritium GUI
Status of robot - ONLINE / OFFLINE
Link to robot's content - click to open Virtual Robot Content Organizer
Tinman status - when robot has telepresence installed and is ONLINE, click here to access the Tinman Telepresence System

Content Organizer Overview

Virtual Robot Content Organizer is composed of 4 sections:

Content Organizer

Files panel: performances in your Virtual Robot account
Robots panel: performances already on your robot or ready to sync to your robot
Properties panel (hidden by default): edit the Properties of performances and manage their appearance on the
File transfers and log: status of transfers

Files panel: Performances in Virtual Robot

Files

Edit: open selected performance in Virtual Robot for editing. You can also double click a performance to edit it.
Delete: delete selected performance from Virtual Robot permanently
Transfer: transfers performance to the robot archive folder (rather than directly to the Touch screen or Telepresence interface)
Bulk Edit: easily edit properties of multiple performances
Duplicate: duplicate the selected folder and its performances. Duplicates are unique copies that can be edited without affecting the originals.
New Folder: create folders to organise content.
Performances are listed below, clicking on Name to sort by name
Last Saved: date or time (if today) performance was last saved. Click on Last Saved to sort by Last Saved.

Robots panel: performances already on your robot or ready to sync to robot

Robots

Edit: open selected performance in Virtual Robot for editing. You can also double click a performance to edit it.
Delete: delete selected performance from robot. Performance still exists in Virtual robot until deleted from Virtual Robot.
Sync: sync new or altered performances from Virtual Robot to the robot
, User's robots

File Transfers and Log

Shows status of current sync requests. Clicking on a robot to sync content to and pressing the Sync button adds a "pending" sync job to the File Transfers list.

Sync request pending

cancel: cancel selected sync job
clear completed: remove completed sync jobs from the list
Status: pending / completed
Last Activity: date and time sync job was added if pending, or date and time completed
File: performance or folder being synced
Robot: Name (or location) of robot

Once the robot is online it will begin to synchronise. When the content has been transferred to the robot the Status will show as "completed".

Sync job completed

Status: completed transfer of performance or folder
clear completed: remove completed sync jobs from the list

Log: logs actions carried out in Virtual Robot Content Organizer

Transfer Log

Transferring content to Touch Screen kiosk - LIBRARY page

Example LIBRARY page

In the Robots panel select the Robot you wish to transfer performances to.

library folder

1. Select the Robot
2. Click to open folder 'touchscreen_ui'
3. Click to open folder language 'en_GB'
4. Click to open folder'Library' (this folder contains library content in the order it appears on the touch screen kiosk)

• Transferring content to robot library

Transfer to library

1. Drag and drop selected performance or folder
2. Dialog box indicates performance or folder is being dragged
3. Green dotted line indicates which order performance or folder is being dragged to

• Syncing performance or folder with robot

Transfer Log

1. Transferred performance in library
2. this symbol indicates you need to sync to robot for changes to take effect
3. click here to sync for changes to take effect

Properties

Access the properties left side panel by clicking on the ">>" :

accessing properties

click on the arrows to open the properties slider

properties open

properties open

properties elements

1. ID: unique ID number (can not be altered)
2. Name:
3. Label:
4. Description:
5. Icon:
6. Limit Control:
7. Exclusive:
8. Loop:
9. Robot Model: Robot model (can not be altered)

• Different icons can be slected to appear in tinman (telepresance) or on the touch screen kisok

changing performance icons

To change icon click on the icon button

icon selection box

choose suitable icon from pre-existing list

1. click on empty bar next to 'Icon' this will open Icons list
2. Icons list
3. click on chosen icon

note after making any changes in properties he robot will have to be 'synced'

Some useful shortcuts

• slow click folder or performance name to rename
• double click folder to open
• double click performance to edit

Troubleshooting

If you experience issues transferring content or with Virtual Robot in general please see Virtual Robot Troubleshooting