[Fedora Robotics] player/stage demo program

[Tim Niemueller]

John McLean schrieb:
> 
> Hello all,

Hi John.

> I recently returned from my trip, and I'm going to start writing up a
> demo program for player and stage in the next few days. I'll probably
> write it in C, since the C library for player is the most documented (I
> would write it

Oh cool. I'm also back and have now some time to work on the Fedora
robotics stuff, I will send an email about this tomorrow.

> in python --much simpler-- except there is nearly no documentation
> for the playerc module).  What are we looking for in a demo program in
> terms of functionality?  Does it need to be interactive? What interfaces
> should I include (ie. position, laser, ptz, etc.)?  I'm looking for a
> general idea of what I should start with.

I think this pretty much depends on what you can do. You cannot do any
sensor data extraction in a few days if you are not experienced in
robotics, but in the simulated environment you have already some data
like position etc. that you can work with.

The first thing is probably just interfacing with Player/Gazebo, output
some data, make the robot do anything, so that you get to know how it
works in general. There maybe something viable in the Player source as
example, maybe?

A thing that should be pretty easy to do is have a small application
(console or GUI, wherever you can excel) that allows for a simple
movement of the robot. When you are able to drive around in the
simulator remote-controlled that's already something! I don't know what
you had in mind, to me a Pioneer model/world looks like a good start.
It's pretty well-known and many will recognize it and comes with Gazebo.
For the LiveCD we need something fancy with a nice GUI, of course. But
this can also come at a later point.

Does that help as input for a start?

	Tim

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