Student platform

Hi

Is there a student budget robot platform that is usable with Orocos?
The point is to be able to test the software and learn how to use it.
The hardware doesn't have to be a full robot but it would be nice.
Maybe some a minimal embedded platform test bed? Would a board with
LED lights be sufficient to prove that it works?

-H

Student platform

Hugo Garcia wrote:

> Is there a student budget robot platform that is usable with Orocos?
> The point is to be able to test the software and learn how to use it.

If the intention is purely to test the software and learn how to use it,
the student's laptop should suffice, shouldn't it? While it is nice to
have real hardware around, it is not a necessity in order to learn orocos :)

> The hardware doesn't have to be a full robot but it would be nice.

My university (KTH, Stockholm) has a 7 week project course in
autnonomous robotics over which students build their own mobile robots
out of aluminium sheets, some sensors and an embedded computing board.
Read on..

> Maybe some a minimal embedded platform test bed?

Jorge Sanchez De Nova (cc'ed to this email) has developed a Xilinx FPGA
based board which we use in this course. It has ~64 megs RAM, a ppc
processor and flash memory. The board runs linux/Xenomai and when I took
the course, I successfully ran Orocos on it. Since then, every new batch
has some students who Orocos'ify their projects too.

> Would a board with
> LED lights be sufficient to prove that it works?

Sure.

You can also google for "Linux SBC" (SBC == Singble Board Computer). A
useful list is at
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/Linux-For-Devices-Articles/Teeny-ween...

Hope this helps,
Sagar

Student platform

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Sagar Behere <sagar [dot] behere [..] ...> wrote:
> Hugo Garcia wrote:
>
>> Is there a student budget robot platform that is usable with Orocos?
>> The point is to be able to test the software and learn how to use it.
>
> If the intention is purely to test the software and learn how to use it, the
> student's laptop should suffice, shouldn't it? While it is nice to have real
> hardware around, it is not a necessity in order to learn orocos :)
>
>> The hardware doesn't have to be a full robot but it would be nice.
>
> My university (KTH, Stockholm) has a 7 week project course in autnonomous
> robotics over which students build their own mobile robots out of aluminium
> sheets, some sensors and an embedded computing board. Read on..
>
>> Maybe some a minimal embedded platform test bed?
>
> Jorge Sanchez De Nova (cc'ed to this email) has developed a Xilinx FPGA
> based board which we use in this course. It has ~64 megs RAM, a ppc
> processor and flash memory. The board runs linux/Xenomai and when I took the
> course, I successfully ran Orocos on it. Since then, every new batch has
> some students who Orocos'ify their projects too.
>
>> Would a board with
>> LED lights be sufficient to prove that it works?
>
> Sure.
>
> You can also google for "Linux SBC" (SBC == Singble Board Computer). A
> useful list is at
> http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/Linux-For-Devices-Articles/Teeny-ween...
>
> Hope this helps,
> Sagar

Thank you

I was actually hoping for concrete examples in listed form...
basically a shopping cart list of the minimal set of hardware that can
be connected to a pc running Linux and be able to do something quickly
and very cheap.

Any suggestions?

-H