Re: Orocos workshop on "(Graphical) User Interfaces", Leuven, June 20

>>I officially announce that Orocos organizes a workshop 
>>about
>>(Graphical) User Interfaces, to be held in Leuven on June 
>>20th 2003.

We are currently developing a client/server application 
for the remote simulation of telemanipulators which 
operate in space (actually, the ISS).

The application exploits an external simulator (Dymosim) 
which embeds the Modelica pre-compiled models of the robot 
arms and their working cell. The models are built using 
Dymola, and Dymosim is run on a server machine.

In the first delivery of our application we plan to allow 
the user to simulate the execution one robot arm command 
at a time. Depending on the robot model (mechanical chain 
+ control system + trajectory generator), the command 
shall be given at Cartesian level, or at Joint Space 
level. As future extension we plan to allow the user to 
simulate the execution of commands given at Action level.

Since the application is explicitly oriented to robotic 
arm simulation, at client side we need to build a GUI with 
at least the following functionalities:

-Robot model presentation
-Robot command assignment (e.g. via teach pendant 
emulation)
-Simulation result virtual presentation

adding themselves to the ones common to simulation 
environments (i.e. simulation control, model and 
simulation parameters setup, time plots).

Gianantonio Magnani and Marco Gritti - Politecnico di 
Milano