Well, my experience with robotic work is that it's often very valuable to have a simulation environment set up, which mirrors the actual testing environment one is using for one's robot. Getting basic kinks worked out of one's system is often easier when working with a sim rather than a real bot.
For Novamente we are just starting to work with the VOS simulation framework, using the CrystalSpace game viz engine for visualizing the world. CrystalSpace has an ODE physics plug-in which we won't use initially, but would be necessary for making a robot-world simulator... -- Ben > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Alejandro Dubrovsky > Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 2:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [agi] Sensory Front-End: which API? > > > On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 12:09 -0500, Yan King Yin wrote: > > > before starting something from scratch, i'd recommend having a look at > > > breve (http://www.spiderland.org/breve/) since it's goals > overlap to a > > > large extent. > > > > > > alejandro > > > > Breve is a simulated virtual environment, but this project is > > based on real-world perception using cameras etc. > > I completely forgot about the real factor in this project. My > apologies. > > > Also Breve > > requires users to write plugins in breve's language, whereas > > my aim is to allow other programmers to write in their own > > languages and integrate with the frontend. > > > Plugins can be written in c/c++ (and so to anything that has c bindings) > but, yes, the glue is in steve. it should be possible to plugin a real > camera as input, but i suppose there wouldn't be much benefit to that if > you are not going to use the simulation framework. Again, sorry for the > noise. > alejandro > > > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate > your subscription, > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
