Re: OROCOS: kick-off...
Paolo Fiorini <[email protected]>
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Dear Hermann and robotic collegues, as I mentioned on an earlier mail to Hermann, I am very interested in joining the consortium, whose objectives are very much in line with one of my current projects. I will reply with my comments to the proposal later on. As a way of introduction, let me briefly describe my current project on real-time robot control. The project started a few years ago at the Rizzoli Hospital in Bologna (italy), with the porting of part of RCCL to a PC for the control of a PUMA 260. We are externding that project at the Univ. of Verona, to make it into a teaching tool for my robotics class. We are in the process of interfacing a PUMA 560 to a PC running RT-Linux, then we will put the PC on the net and develop a simulator and programming tool, so that my students could develop and test programs in simulations and then downloaded them to the real robot. Much of the elements necessary for the project are available in the public domain, so I expect a rapid development. I did not plan to code according to OSF guidelines, but this can be easily added. In the hope of joiinig the proposal team, I send you my best whishes for a Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year. paolo === Paolo Fiorini, PhD Jet Propulsion Laboratory Dip. Scientifico e Tecnologico California Institute of Technology Universita' di Verona Ph: +1 818 354 9061 +39 045 802 7963 Fx: +1 818 393 5007 +39 045 802 7928 http://robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/people/fiorini http://www.sci.univr.it/~fiorini