> On Jul 22 2005, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> >> Hi,
>> I haven't looked at the code you provided a link to, but here goes...
>> From what I understand C++ robot interface basicly consist of a >>
"robot_link" object that you have to provide each to you want the >>
robot to act. I'd say the easiest thing to do is to create a new >>
octave type in C++ that contains a "robot_link" and then write wrapper
>> functions to the functions your students need to access.
>> A tutorial on how to write new types for Octave can be found at >>
http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?CodaTypes
>>
>> Hope this helps, if not write again. Your problem should be fairly
>> easy to solve, although it will require a bit of work.
>>
>> /Søren
>>
>> Mike Morley wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > > I see there's been some chatter about this recently, but I have
>> another > question for the Octave/C++ gurus.
>> > > I'm currently working on a project that involves robotics in a
> >> University teaching environment.
>> > > Students currently control the robot using a C++ program they
>> write > themselves and a set of commands for which they have the >>
header files.
>> > > (I've put the header files and an example program that tests
the >> link > online at http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mjm80/robot/)
>> > > What we would ideally like is a higher level way of controlling
>> the > robot - ie, from Octave. Partly this would enable signal >>
processing to > become much easier and thus easily extend the range of
>> tasks we can > expect students to get their robots to perform.
>> > > As I understand it, I need to create the C++ wrappers for each
of >> the > functions and then compile this into a .oct file in order
to run >> it.
>> > > However: I'm not entirely sure how to do this - is it, for >>
example, > possible to have a robot_link object that persists for the
>> entire > Octave program? Would I be able to create a function that
>> mimics > rlink.command (COMMAND_NAME, var) that takes COMMAND_NAME
and >> var in as > arguments, or would I have to create a function for
each >> specific > command?
>> > > Any help/pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>> > > - Mike Morley
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