@inorbit/edge-sdk

InOrbit Edge SDK

The InOrbit Edge SDK allows Javascript programs to communicate with InOrbit platform on behalf of robots - providing robot data and handling robot actions. It's goal is to ease the integration between InOrbit and any other software that handles robot data.

This package can be installed using NPM as shown below:

npm i @inorbit/edge-sdk

The following example shows how this package can be used to send data belonging to various robots to InOrbit:

import { InOrbit } from '@inorbit/edge-sdk';

function sleep(ms) {
  return new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
}

async function main() {
  const robots = ['robot0', 'robot1', 'robot2', 'robot3'];

  // Initialize the SDK reading the InOrbit API Key from the environment
  const sdk = new InOrbit({ apiKey: process.env.INORBIT_API_KEY });

  // Initialize the connection for each robot
  await Promise.all(robots.map((robotId) => sdk.connectRobot({ robotId })));

  while (true) {
    // Publish Key-Values with battery and status values
    await Promise.all(robots.map((robotId) => sdk.publishCustomDataKV(robotId, {
      battery: Math.random() * 100,
      status: Math.random() > 0.5 ? 'Mission' : 'Idle'
    })));

    // Publish the robots' poses
    await Promise.all(robots.map((robotId) => sdk.publishPose(robotId, {
      ts: new Date().getTime(),
      x: Math.random() * 20 + 20,
      y: Math.random() * 20 + 10,
      yaw: Math.random() * Math.PI * 2,
      frameId: 'map'
    })));

    await sleep(1000);
  }
}

main();

The code publishes fake data about four robots to InOrbit. The data is then available in InOrbit platform and can be queried via APIs or using InOrbit Control.

You can extend this example to actually integrate your existing applications, including fleet manager systems, with InOrbit.