Thanks Michael, Looking forward to the video of Bas' demo.
On Monday, July 4, 2016 at 2:33:34 AM UTC-5, Michael Haberler wrote: > > > > Am 04.07.2016 um 01:41 schrieb sliptonic <[email protected] > <javascript:>>: > > > > Now that the Joint/Axis branch has been merged in LinuxCNC, I was > curious about the prognosis for the same in Machinekit? There was some > mention in the issue about potential for ROS integration. > > not sure in which context that was mentioned, maybe this should be > clarified: > > as far as ROS/HAL interaction goes, this is unlikely to ever use the > motion component, as ROS is very good at trajectory planning and > kinematics; motion brings no value to the table here. The basic task for > ROS integration is joint trajectory interpolation and playout, and that is > already covered by a rather simple component. Bas has a pretty good example > for that. > > In fact it is a big relief that you can do motion applications _without_ > the motion component (which honestly is a mess hacked to death, no reusable > API, and a gazillion of assumptions which essentially limit usability to > the CNC UI's). > > So the JA work adds no tangible value for this use case. > > > I'd love to hear more about that too. > > I think it is good that finally the bad terminology confusion - joints vs > axes - was cleaned up. World-mode jogging is certainly a plus. Beyond that > I do not see any significant functional changes, but I might have missed > something. For instance, if acceleration limits are actually done in joint > rather than in axis space now, that would warrant an effort; not sure if > this is the case - I do not remember that being addressed last time I > looked at it. > > Happy to advise anybody signing up to the task - it is not just a bit of > patchup of a component but percolates up to UI's and down to configs, so > certainly not a weekend effort. > > My own priorities still are: website improvement, package split, move to > cmake, integrate the multicore work. > > - Michael > > > > > > > -- > > website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io > github: https://github.com/machinekit > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Machinekit" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
