Hello
Congratulation for your hard work! I hope (for you) that the roboters all the
same!
My in German so called "Diplomarbeit" is to develop a Software to control a
6-axis-roboter "PUMA 200". I use RT-Linux V1.2 with S.u.S.E-Linux on
PII-400Mhz (128MB ram, EIDE-Controller). The card is from "Servo to Go"
(www.servotogo.com). The access to the card is about reading and writing
Registers with outb() and inb() for bytes and outw() and inw() for words. So
you don't need a driver for this card. The E/A's and the IRQ are configurable,
so you can use more than one card in a computer.
Regards
Guenter Heinendirk
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Bill Goodwine wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just received a grant to set up a robotic grasping-type manipulation
>platform, which will involve the coordinated control of three industrial robots
>with 6 degrees of freedom each. Since the standard controllers won't work to
>achieve the type of precise coordination we need, I am just buying the robots
>with the motors and encoders and have to put together the control hardware
>myself.
>
>My budget contains enough money to buy QNX, but I'm also considering RTLinux.
>Although I've done things like recompiling the kernel many more times than I
>care to admit, I'm not really a hard core programmer and am a little insecure
>with respect to all the programming that may be involved.
>
>Any insight into any or all of the following would be *greatly* appreciated.
>
>1. Aside from rtlinux.org and the links therefrom, are there any web resources
>I should have checked before emailing this list (sorry if this is the case), or
>any that are particularly useful?
>
>2. Does anyone have any experience regarding particular motion control boards
>under RTLinux that can offer advice about what to get or avoid? Does any
>motion control board manufacturer actually support (officially or otherwise)
>RTLinux?
>
>3. Since I need to control 18 degrees of freedom, if the motion control board
>we choose has less than, say, 8 axes, we will need an extended backplane
>computer or other special bus architecture to provide enough slots for the
>boards. Are there any potentially major problems lurking here?
>
>4. I'm new to real time programming, but my naive guess is that the decision
>between QNX and RTLinux simply boils down to whether the built-in support that
>I will get from some boards is worth the cost of the operating system. Will we
>be pretty much on our own when it comes to writing a driver for whatever board
>we buy, or is there a long list of them for which drivers already have been
>written? I bought the "Writing Device Drivers" book, but, really, is it any
>big deal to write a device driver, having never done it before?
>
>5. Does anyone have direct experience with both QNX and RTLinux, and if so,
>from the operating system point of view what are the relative advantages of
>each? Does QNX support SMP?
>
>6. Any other comments or advice.
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