Robonova to be supported in robotFoundry and robotSim

[HumanoidFan]

Hi,

My Cogmation Robotics is working on adding Robonova support to our robot development environment called robotSuite. This environment includes a 3D robot simulator (robotSim) and a graphical coding system.

I would appreciate any comments or features you would like to see supported by our software. We will also be looking for beta testers in the near future.

Anyone who is interested in our progress can check out my personal blog to see how things are progressing.ShawnSchaerer.com

Shawn Schaerer
Director of Research and Development
Cogmation Robotics Inc
http://www.cogmation.com

[i-Bot]

Either serial interface on the Robonova will only give you basic control ,either similar to the remote control, or similar to the real time control window under Robobasic. If this loose coupling of your application to the Robonova is sufficient then you should be OK.

I would suggest if you are looking for faster and tighter real time coupling of your app. to a humanoid you are better to look at the Bioloid or the Robobuilder.

[HumanoidFan]

Thanks i-bot for your suggestions and all of your past work on the MR-C3024. I have read all of your posts.

Real-time control is the end goal and I agree that it will be difficult to get it to work on the Robonova. As a start we will only implement basic control.

Bioloid and robotBuilder are on my todo list, time is my only problem

[robots42]

Hi
On http://www.shawnschaerer.com/ you mention that using the built in serial port you wouldn't be able to use the inbuilt moves. I presume you mean the moves in a loaded Basic Program. The commands don't overlap so I don't see why you couldn't use both. You could easily call up to 93 (and with some encoding many many more) routines as well as use the low level direct commands to the RTOS.
David

[HumanoidFan]

Hi,

yes, I mean the built in moves running in the basic program. Using the built in port I can only access the low level commands that have been documented on this forum?
I think I am going to use the high speed ETX ERX port and talk directly to a basic program, I will add functionality to add custom motions on the fly via serial comms ( although this will be slow 30-60ms per motion)

Shawn

[robots42]

You can access all the Basic routines as well. Any byte 0-$F7 sent to the programming port from the PC or other terminal gets put in the first defined Basic variable and can be read at any time from Basic.

[code]
DIM Scmnd AS BYTE 'first variable gets filled by PC serialport input if <7F

'Scmnd is updated by any PCserial command byte
IF Scmnd = 0 THEN GOTO getIRcmnd 'no cmnd from PC
[code]
if you subtract 48 then the number keys directly address routines 1 to 9, etc.

David[/code]

[HumanoidFan]

thanks for this info, I will try it out this weekend.

Do you know if the sync_move command is working? I read in another post that it behaves funny. I am going to try it with groups of 6 servos instead of 24 like some of the other users have been doing. Hopefully it works.

Shawn

[robots42]

Not tried that yet
David