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

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 [email protected] wrote:

> may I try an intermediary summary and ask some questions?
Of course :-)

> What I interprete from the last-month's exchanges is the feeling that there
> is indeed a great need for OROCOS II at a larger scope. It seems that
> robotics related or control people dominate, the mechatronics scope you aim
> for seems fitting. If I'd be a reviewer I expect to see more mechatronics or
> distributed manufacturing people. 

I have very good contacts in that area. But these people do not tend
to follow robotics related news groups...

> I'd also expect to see perception
> represented at a more complex level 
What do you mean exactly? There is (or _ought_ to be) already complex
sensing in the proposal, with complexity in the sense of:  "lots of
sensors", "difficult to make decisions".

> While I think your point is correct that the EU wants to see a large
> community taking up the open source initiative, I am not certain where this
> initial point is. As you heard, for vision people it is at present a long
> way and not yet sure if it will be useable. 

I know... The vision community is suffering from their "early
adoption" of open source: projects like VXL (and its predecessors) are
not really too successful. (Which is a big pity.) 

So, I am a bit reluctant to mention too much about vision, for the
simple reason that things like VXL and Intel's OpenCV are already out
there...

Herman

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