Re: [OT] Informations about Orocos

On Tuesday 19 July 2005 16:09, Enrico Marchetto wrote:
> Hello everybody!
> I'm an Italian undergraduate student of the University of Padova.
> First of all I apologize for my bad English.
> For an exam I plan to study the structure of Orocos platform and the way it
> works. I have a normal Pc computer running linux, and I have not a real
> robot. So my question is: can I compile orocos and see some kind of results
> also without a robot? I've seen in the documentation that Orocos runs fine
> on RTAI or on a normal Linux kernel, but without a robot what kind of
> functionalities can I observe? Can I integrate Orocos with some kind of
> graphic visulization tool of, for example, a robotic arm with 6 DOF? I've
> seen you plan to use Blender for this....

These integration efforts were far to experimental to build a public package 
around it. The only GUI available is for monitoring the Control Kernel task, 
but not for visualising the robot itself. The Orocos people are actually 
looking/waiting for an open platform for visualisation with which we can 
easily interoperate remotely (read: using a CORBA interface). We do not 
intend to write such a platform or define such interfaces ourselves.

>
> If the informations I need are present in the manuals please sorry, I have
> take a survey of the various platform for robots (ex. miro) so I have not
> yet readed the manuals in details: I am trying to figure out what kind of
> work can I build around the various platforms without a robot.

A simulation without visualisation can be setup with compiling Orocos, then 
the nAxes demo
<http://svn.mech.kuleuven.be/browse/orocos/orocos-apps/applications/nAxis-demo/>
with the 'kuka' hardware hotspots
<http://svn.mech.kuleuven.be/browse/orocos/orocos-apps/hardware-hotspots/naxes/kuka/>
But if you're new to Orocos (or to C++), this can take too much of your time.

A starters-kit is on our wish-list :-/

Peter
-- 
K.U.Leuven, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics Research Group
<http://www.orocos.org> Tel: +32 16 322772