Orocos Version 0.14 Released

Posted 8 May 2004 at 20:23 UTC by steve

Another major Orocos update has been released. The update includes many new features as well as bug fixes. The Open Robot Control Software (Orocos) framework provides a real-time C++ infrastructure for creating standards-based robot control software. Orocos is designed to run under Real-Time Linux variants but will also run under conventional Linux distributions. The Orocos API includes a wide range of useful tools including kinematics, task sequencing, and CORBA-based communications primitives. Orocos is Free Software licensed under the GNU GPL.

Lisp?, posted 9 May 2004 at 03:02 UTC by roschler » (Master)

[Note: I'm a Prolog fan, not Lisp, although I do have great respect for that language].

Slightly off-topic, but all this C++ robotics stuff does beg the question, "where are the Lisp libraries?". Not for tasks that require really fast computation speed like servocontroller management and vision recognition, etc, but I would have thought there would be some for decision making tasks on some of the "off-board" robotic systems ("off-board" = not everything slammed onto a small onboard CPU with some memory and an RTOS).

Just curious.

roschler

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