Meetings 2012-08-16¶

Report from ISY course¶

• RSB has been used in two groups

Experiences: group1¶

• Topic: Status/Control of sensors and lights via RSB
• Integration via RSB responsibility of one participant (of three)
• Other responsibilities: learning, hardware access
• RSB Java trunk version has been used
• Protocol buffer stuff worked fine
• Problems
  • Ubuntu Spread package does not work (hard to notice in documentation)
  • Missed RSB introduction
  • Access to volume which contained RSB did not work
  • Converter registration was a problem
  • Builder pattern of Java protocol buffer API was new
• Potential for reuse
  • Protocol and drivers can be reused
  • New sensors/actors require new drivers
  • Code is in ISY-specific redmine instance

Experiences: group2¶

• Topic: Robotic Butler
  • Environment would be shown to Robot
  • Important locations would be marked
  • Robot would then serve drinks autonomously
  • Remote control via tablet
• ROS has been used
  • For robot control, navigation
  • For table-based remote control
• Use of RSB
  • RSB installation worked fine
  • State machine state published via RSB

Experiences outside ISY course¶

• Problems:
  • transport configuration

Development Process and Sustainability¶

• Ideas for future courses
  • "Integration Tutorial"
  • Cooperation and data exchange should be an explicit requirement
  • Let groups configure/build/use software of other groups (one session)
  • Can we enforce certain requirements for projects/components?