Accelerating RUBIOS
Akshathkumar Shetty, the developer of Quickserver, upon which RUBIOS is built, is going to help us out to accelerate the message passing performance of RUBIOS.
WillowGarage ROS
I have been reading the overview of the Willow Garage Robot Operating System. If it lives up to its promise, it sounds like it almost perfect for our needs, and we may want to consider trying it for our latest projects.
It has the following advantages:
- Cross platform
- Cross language (currently C++/Python, Java coming “soon”)
- Publish/Subscribe architecture
- Nodes talk directly to each other
- Multiple data passing methods (tcp/udp/shared memory) as appropriate
- Automatic bookkeeping of all publishers/subscribers
An overview is available:
http://pr.willowgarage.com/wiki/ROS/Overview
Installation Problems
Adam White, from the University of Alberta reported problems compiling the Phidgets. Turned out the rubios.jar archive was outdated. Problem was solved when the more recent rubios.jar file was included in the distribution.
Public Release of RUBIOS 2.0
RUBIOS 2.0, the open source social robotics API developed as part of the RUBI project has been released for public use.
Click here to download.