Re: RE: Wish List

On Friday 16 August 2002 20:17, [email protected] wrote:
> Dear Herman,
>
> Thanks for your reply.  I don't consider myself enough of a robotics expert
> to do a great job of creating a detailed wish list.  But I will try to
> share with you a few ideas that may help.
>
> A "snippet" of RIMCP might look like this:
>
> Grasp("Wine glass 7",  0.3,  0.1)

As a 'software engineer in practice', I am obliged to point out that 
html/xml/... are about format/structure ("markup language") and leave the 
content to the writer. They are only high level concerning the way formatting 
is expressed, but actually the contents of such a document resemble more a 
database than a high level language. A more high level description of your 
command could be expressed in an Object Oriented way (we *do* agree that that 
is higher level than plain C, don't we ?) :

MetricUnit* pres = new Pascal(0.3);
MetricUnit* volume = new CubeMeter(0.1);

Values* safety_values = new GLassLimits(pres,volume);
3DObject* glass = new Glass("Wine glass 7", safety_values);
// ...
robot->Grasp(glass);
// ...

Mix in Corba or local nameserving and you might get a distributed robot 
control language way more powerfull than a markup language can define.

Peter