Hello, We are quite happy how our Etherlab setup works now. We are thinking about using it on longer term for our work, not only as development, but also as deployment platform.
There is however one question, which was formulated recently - how we can communicate with other real-time systems, for example LabView. Part of our algorithms (visual) works in LabView. The result is a sequence of real numbers with sampling rate approximately 100Hz. We know it would be quite possible to use real-time UDP on a dedicated cable to make this data exchange fast and deterministic. LabView is capable to output data on UDP, so it is OK from that point. But we have no means to read it from Etherlab now. This would be possible for example in RTAILab, as far, as I know, but we would not have Ethercat capabilities, which is important for us. I guess I gave sufficient background on this, so the main question would be obvious probably. What wold be the easiest way to include deterministic UDP input stream in Etherlab. What would be the effort complexity? I am control engineer, not a Linux specialist and we would prefer to have some expert opinion on this before scheduling efforts on this. Hopefully we will be able to provide this back to the community, depending on our management. Any opinion on this? -- Julian Stoev, PhD. Control Researcher _______________________________________________ etherlab-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.etherlab.org/mailman/listinfo/etherlab-users
