Re: A robot simulator

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote:

[...]
> I comment that I have developed a robot arm simulator as my master
> thesis. You can look it at:
> 
> http://qilex.berlios.de
> 
Thanks for the annoucement. I will put a link on the web page.

Some questions:

- what is the basic design of the simulator? I.e., what is its
  architecture, what "servers" and "clients" do you have, can you
  interact in two directions with the simulator (i.e., not just
  visualize things, but also indicate things on the GUI and have them
  sent to the robot); ...

- from the manual, I seem to get the impression that Qilex allows to
  interactively build new kinematic chains? How complex can these be?
  How are they stored on disk?

- how does one attach an external program, such as a robot controller
  output, to the simulator? How does one do the opposite thing? (I.e.,
  using the simulator to indicate desired positions.)

- what is the roadmap of this project? I mean, where do you want it to
  be in one year's time?

Herman
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