Re: [Playerstage-developers] Re: [Playexrstage-developers] Common robotics data exchange format...?

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Carle [iso-8859-1] Côté wrote:

[...]
> We have created an XML data representation of this library as we're
> now using this format for data streaming
> (http://marie.sourceforge.net/en/Documentation.html#DATATYPES). It is a very
> preliminary work, but it might be useful for discussion. Note that we're
> supposed to move to the same data representation as Player for datatypes that
> can be shared, as it is "de facto" standard.

All this is good news :-)

But most of the data types mentioned in the cited on-line document are,
in my opinion, beyond the scope of what I had in mind: they do not
represent states of the robots, but of (less standardizable) peripherals
and control modes.

Concretely speaking, I would start from the file
  client_libs/c++/playerclient.h
in the player source tree, and discuss its basic "proxy" data structures:
descartesproxy, positionproxy, and position3dproxy. I would then add
"manipulator" and "humanoid" stuff. And that's it. (To start with.)

Herman

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