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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>
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Subject: Re: [ANN] Player-Ada 2.0.3.0 released
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:42:27 +0200
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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.

Alex.