[comp.robotics] Second Request For Robotics Shell Info

nbrown@potomac.ads.com (Nathan Brown) (09/15/90)

Thanks to everyone who responded to my original request for
information on robotics shells.  I would now like to find out if there
are any competitors with CimStation in commercial or academic
environments in the US or Europe or Japan.  I will post this request
world-wide.

As in the original request for information the desired features are
that the shell allow the specification of:

  operational environment
  robot's environmental representation
  sensor complement
  effector complement
  behavioral characteristics

and provide graphical support for:

  parts interface,
  internal communication structure,
  major internal wiring commonents,
  3-space movement,
  sensor coverage in 3-space.

Design instantiation from parts database is desirable.

N.  Brown-- 

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adnan@screech.rice.edu (Sarmad Adnan) (09/15/90)

Nathan Brown writes 

>  operational environment
>  robot's environmental representation
>  sensor complement
>  effector complement
>  behavioral characteristics

>and provide graphical support for:

>  parts interface,
>  internal communication structure,
>  major internal wiring commonents,
>  3-space movement,
>  sensor coverage in 3-space.

>Design instantiation from parts database is desirable.

Try Deneb robotics software. It is an easy to use product with a lot of features


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                  Sarmad Adnan (adnan@rice.edu)
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marcel@ADS.COM (Marcel Schoppers) (09/18/90)

>  Try the DENEB simulation package...

Some people we work with at NASA Johnson have tried the DENEB software, and
have found that it's good for kinematics simulation, but not good for dynamics,
and not even good for kinematics if you want to interactively/manually cause
perturbations.

marcel@ads.com