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:
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>
> > 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 
>
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