RE: Status report: second control milestone reached

On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 [email protected] wrote:

> My employer is researching the feasibility of developing a fairly
> simple (little autonomy) telerobotics solution.  I've read the draft
> paper on the control core and I think the software concepts are
> going to essential to the future of robotics.  I also downloaded the
> code (0.0.2) and looked through it to get a general idea of how
> things are moving along.  

Well, 0.0.2 is old :-) A much richer release in in the making. But
this evolution will repeat itself a lot in the following year (I
hope).

> So now moving along, what type of controller do I need?  What type
> are you using for testing?  I'm pretty new to robotics, but I want
> to make sure our prototype gets started correctly.  Thank you in
> advance.

Our hardware is an industrial PC, with some PCI interface cards. (Other
hardware we will be using are some PowerPC boards.) This allows 1KHz
control of a six-axis robot. We haven't really spent time to see
exactly how fast we can go though.

Herman

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