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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: [ANN] Player-Ada 2.0.3.0 released
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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:20:17 +0200
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On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:42:27 +0200, Alex R. Mosteo wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:51:01 +0200, Alex R. Mosteo wrote:
>> 
>>> Player-Ada
>>> ==========
>>> A binding for the Player/Stage robotic platform.
>>> 
>>> Player-Ada is a not-so-thin binding to the libplayerc client library that
>>> is distributed as part of the Player/Stage multi-robot
>>> interface/simulator software.
>>> 
>>> It currently implements the following interfaces: blobfinder, gps, laser,
>>> localize, planner, position2d, simulation.
>>> 
>>> Binding homepage: http://ada-player.sf.net/
>>> Player homepage:  http://playerstage.sf.net/
>> 
>> Hardware?
> 
> The binding has only been tested in Linux with gnat, but it's supposed to be
> pure Ada95 without using gnat extensions. Quoting Player FAQ:
> 
> "
> Player runs on pretty much any POSIX platform, including embedded systems
> (Player has been cross-compiled to run on several ARM- and PPC-based Linux
> systems). Specifically, Player's requirements are:
> 
>     * POSIX development environment, with threads (pthreads)
>     * TCP stack
>     * A compiler with both C and C++ (we have only tested gcc, but other
> compilers may work)
>     * A bash shell, to run the configure script; this implies that Player
> will not build natively in Windows, though some users have it running under
> Cygwin, and there are rumors of MinGW builds as well.
> "
> 
> If you refer to what robots can be controlled with player:
> 
> http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/doc/Player-cvs/player/supported_hardware.html
> 
> I have used it with Pioneer3 DX/AT robots equiped with sonar and SICK200
> lasers.

Thanks for the information.

If I correctly understood it is not embedded, the thingy is controlled by a
PC.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de