[Gllug] Tomorrow's World

[George Saxby]

Rich,
       I caught the tail end of the presentation and wondered if you
were the group that Andrew came to see early this year in north london
that were developing a Land mine removal robot. Good to see you getting
the exposure.

George F. Saxby
    Systems Engineer
       I.T.S. Team

>>> rw at shadow.org.uk 03/14/02 02:34pm >>>
Hi,

If anyone saw Tomorrow's World last night, you might have seen our
robot hand on it. Relevance: it currently runs off a P2-266 with
RTAI-24.1.8 running under Linux 2.4.18 on debian. We use a custom
parallel port <> CANbus interface to talk to the hardware. 

We also had an Immersion Cyberglove, but they didn't use that bit.
The cyberglove has a serial port interface: you send it "g" and it
returns 18 values as ascii text. We used a pair of shell scripts to
dump that into a file on one machine, and read it out of the file on
the other... NFS: sorts out teleoperation :>

The guy with the Aibo seemed to be running it under Windows. No
surprises there. K-9 and Skeletor, on the other hand, were standard
radio control rigs. 


hope this is of interest

cheers,Rich.


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