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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 14:08:31 +0200
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On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:03:10 +0200, Alex R. Mosteo wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
> (snip)
> 
>> If I correctly understood it is not embedded, the thingy is controlled by
>> a PC.
> 
> Well, no and yes. In our case, the Pioneer robots have an embedded board
> with PC/104 socket that allows to have a x86 platform running linux.

Is it role of being a sort of extension board, arithmetic booster, DSP
board etc as in PCs of early 90s?

> Player
> connects to the hardware via RS232. But I suppose you refer to more exotic
> platforms?

Nothing specific. I am just wondering if there is an architecture that
could natively support Ada, down to actuators, sensors and real-time
control loops.

[In industry actuators and sensors are connected via Ethernet (maybe
modified) or a field bus. The latter slowly dies out. RS232 is, well, quite
outdated.]

> You can check more details here: http://mobilerobots.com/

Thanks.

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