OCL

Subversion access

The subversion tree contains the sources and some example
applications. The kdlviewer is located in the applications.

svn co http://svn.mech.kuleuven.be/repos/orocos/orocos-components/

Installation instructions can be found in the documentation section.

Orocos Real-Time Toolkit 1.0.1 Released

The Orocos development team announces the first bug-fix release of the Orocos Real-Time Toolkit 1.0. This release improved the online documentation, fixed bindings to Xenomai and RTAI and contains additions to the Corba interface.

The Orocos Components Library version 0.2.1 and the Orocos Kinematics and Dynamics Library version 0.2.1 have been released as well. These releases include mainly documentation updates. The 'Component Template' package v1.0 has been released as well, which allows Orocos Component builders to quickly construct a new component. The template offers a ready to use build system (using cmake), an example component and an example test program.

nAxes Motion Control

Description

This is a set of components to control any number of axes. If you want to control a robot in joint space, these are the components you are looking for.

There a 2 different types of components:

  • Trajectory Generators
  • Controllers

DeploymentComponent

Description

A component which dynamically loads and connects components to each other at runtime. It can be asked to connect port A from component C1 to port B from component C2. It supports creating both data flow connections and peer connections. All configuration is done through an XML file or the scripting interface.

TaskBrowser

Description

A must have for every component developer or user. It can connect to any component and provides you a run-time user interface.

Components for Control

The Orocos Component Library uses the Real-Time Toolkit (RTT) for constructing all its components.

Some components use the Kinematics and Dynamics Library (KDL), the Bayesian Filtering Library (BFL) or other libraries.