Re: First draft of "OROCOS II" proposal...

Sebastian Wrede wrote:

Dear Sebastian,

If you are interested in Vision, please have a look at the SmartSoft components
which provide access to video4linux devices. The video data is transmitted via
shared memory whereas the synchronization of the buffers and everything is
handled by the SmartSoft patterns which is completely transparent to the user.
Please download the current src tree, compile everything and look at the
following directories:

src/components/smartVideo4LinuxServer
src/components/smartVideoClient

Kind Regards

Christian Schlegel



> We at Bielefeld University are dealing with integrating several vision
> components, e.g. in the IST-project VAMPIRE.
> As we also have a mobile robot, we ended up testing OROCOS@KTH
> which was indeed non-trivial to get running on our linux machines.
> But finally we got it to work and we are now in the process of evaluating how
> well it fits our needs. Although OROCOS@KTH is work in progress, we have the
> impression that it might be very well suited as middleware solution.
>
> However, I agree with Markus that currently documentation is a problem.
> Also, OROCOS@KTH is being developed focussing on robotics.
> Therefore, there is currently no separation of concerns
> in the framework regarding robot-specific functionality and
> the communication framework itself.
>
> For us at Bielefeld as 'vision and robotics' application developers,
> we would be very interested in a reliable and simple to use framework that
> could be used to integrate systems in both domains.
> I am therefore very curious about seeing the current activities at
> ULM and KTH getting some critical mass!
> And, as pointed out above, I am already trying to contribute to
> this by evaluating the properties of OROCOS@KTH for use in a vision project.
> If other people working with OROCOS@KTH are using it to realize vision
> architectures I would be very happy to get in contact!
>
> Best wishes,
>
>   Sebastian

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