RE: Open source robot controllers

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Stramigioli, S wrote:

> > I thought 20sim also was prorietary, wihch makes it inyteresting but
> > useless for our effort.
>
> As Dymula uses Modelica, 20sim uses Sidops which has the constructs and
> power port features I said before.
> 20sim is proprietary as Dymula, but Sidops is open and the 20sim team is
> busy writing a formal definition of Sidops which will be publically
> available.

Ok, I didn't realise this :-)

> Furthermore, they are planning to make a free viewer/simulator available
> with which you can view/simulate somebodyelse's model, but you cannot change
> it and save it.

Will they allow us to write an open source version of this viewer?
(The OverFlow project that was mentioned on the mailinglist yesterday
would be a good point to start from...

> So I do believe it is worth having a look at it for our purpose.
Sure! Keep us informed about when there is something available. Or
about things they would be interested in in discussing with us.

Herman