Re: dynamic wiring

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 [email protected] wrote:

[...]
> > > Think of components like a mapping component, a path
> > > planning component and a motion control component on a mobile platform.
> > These correspond to our Observer, Generator and Control components at
> > the real-time level.
>
> Ok, at the level of the Observer, Generator etc. it is exactly the
> same level as in SmartSoft. I was first thinking on dynamic wiring at
> the level of hot spots ...

The hot spots are (by definition) out of the scope of Orocos :-) The
programmer of a particular system must provide an implementation of the
device-independent API to Orocos. Which isn't fully defined yet...

> And I agree, that the "dynamic wiring" in that sense is an important
> aspect which is mainly raised by robotics people.  It therefore really
> might be worth it to call it THE robotics pattern ...
>
I prefer that people outside of the Orocos group would start calling it
like this. Or rather, the "Orocos pattern" for short :-)

Herman
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