Archive for October, 2008

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Invited Talk on High Level Robot Development and 3D Simulation

This week I was invited to give a talk to the department of Engineering at the University of Manitoba.  The talk was about graphical coding / visual programing of robotic systems and how leveraging the power of these tools can lower development costs and speed up development time.  One other benefit of using these tools is [...]

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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Integration and Simulation of Whitebox Robotics PC-BOT 914

I am starting on another robotSuite project.  We have received a PC-BOT 914 from White Box Robotics and we will fully support this robot in robotSim and robotFoundry.  We have already completed a 3D model and I am now starting to do the integration ( writing the low level drivers) of the physical robot with robotFoundry.  I plan [...]

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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Successful Simulation of a Humanoid Robot (More Fun with PhysX Joints and Transforms )

Today, I finally managed to get a 22 DOF humanoid robot simulated in robotSim.  Man what a lot of work.  I really thought it would have taken a lot less time, but thats how it goes.  Most of the problems were with Unity’s lack of documentation on configurable joints.  I had to really understand the [...]

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