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Programming language?
The short answer is, frustratingly, "it depends".
Nearly every established language can be used to program one robot platform or another. In my short career as a roboticist I have already used Python,...
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Are robot's codes usually compiled or interpreted?
Robots tend to be portable devices powered by batteries. Portable battery operated devices tend to use embedded processors with limited power and memory. Compiled code has several advantages over ...
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KUKA FRI program using JAVA
Currently FRI can only be controlled in C++.
Java is also necessary to initialize the FRI interface. The C++ code if found in a file called FRI-Client-SDK_Cpp.zip ...
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Code control your arduino with keyboard
http://playground.arduino.cc/Main/PS2Keyboard
The extended version http://playground.arduino.cc/Main/PS2KeyboardExt2
This example will show you how to read data from keyboard.The library will let ...
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Artificial Intelligence Software Packages: Professionals, University education is oft' a step behind. What's actually being used?
I am not sure which end of the AI work you intended, so this may not apply. If you are working disconnected from hardware one might be better off with straight MATLAB / Octave.
If you are planning to ...
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how to move my robot to the assigned coordinates
The GPS gives the actual coordinates. The compass gives the orientation. The waypoints also have coordinates, and as I see in your code, you have defined movement primitives for your robot.
From the ...
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Beginner Sets for intermediate devs
If you want to start programming a robot that's already built, the Scribbler 3 (S3) robot by Parallax, inc. is relatively affordable and comes already assembled. The programming relies on Blockly, a ...
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Programming A Rover
Ravi - This is a great question. So many great ideas stop simply because we don't know how to kick things off. I'll try to list a few options below for each of your questions so I don't sound like I'...
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How can I allow for this code to switch from remote control to autonomous?
The code for “task autonomous()” should be outside of the main() function.
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How to make a CNC machine from scratch?
How does a controller translate a move x 20 units to moving the stepper x amount of steps and keep dimensional accuracy? If the CAD G-code says move 200 mm in the x direction, how to you translate the ...
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ABB Object Oriented RAPID language
In reviewing the PDF for the RAPID language, it looks like you don't. I can't see anything online that states the RAPID language is object oriented. The manual doesn't even contain the word "class" ...
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Omron Viper 850 Orientation out of range error
It has been a while since I worked in V+, the predecessor to EV+, but I think I can answer some questions.
The base instruction allows you shift the robot world frame in X, Y, Z, and rotate about Z, ...
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Learning ROS for Absolute Beginners in Robotics
Welcome to the ROS world :).
Definitely, stick with python in learning ROS. You'll learn C++ with time and adapt your ROS knowledge to it.
You'll find a lot of very good tutorials online, starting ...
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Is Programming/Coding necessary to pursue a masters degree in robotics?
Is coding a requirement if you want to take up robotics? No, but it is strongly recommended.
The field of robotics is highly multidisciplinary. I primarily work on AUVs as a software developer, but ...
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How to convert 2D AutoCad drawing into CODE for CNC machine (laser cutter)?
Your question can be generalized as how to "convert: a CAD model to G-Code (or NC Code).
Generally CAD is used to design parts and CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) software is used to design ...
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Control loop in or outside of main loop
In simple case it probably doess not matter, but if you have more (and slow) sensors as well as more things to do, the second approach is better, because you can let do sensors do their work (in their ...
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Is there any ROS community effort bases on golang?
recently I find a project called "rosgo" which is doing similar thing. But seems that it is not active recently. here's thel link: wiki.ros.org/rosgo
Hope this project can go further because golang is ...
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Are robot's codes usually compiled or interpreted?
Many people use Python to control robots. While it does use more computing resources to interpret the python code, it may take less time for the programmer to develop in an interpreted language.
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Where to make changes for simulation project Bullet/Gazebo/ROS/Orocos
You are right, it is a lot of files to deal with...
ROS, among other things, is a convention for developing large software systems. They say Robot Operating System but what they mean is Robot ...
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Where to make changes for simulation project Bullet/Gazebo/ROS/Orocos
As far as I know, soft body simulation is not currently supported in Gazebo.
See https://bitbucket.org/osrf/gazebo/issues/1422/soft-body-supoort-in-gazebo and http://answers.gazebosim.org/question/...
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Retrieving distance and angle of roobma create2
You say, "It doesn't work for me." What does that mean? You get nothing? You get numbers that don't make sense? Does it lock up? Something else?
First, I'd refer you to the Create2 Documentation ...
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RobotC graphical raise arms while reversing
In both of the pictures, line 19 has a "wait" command. The execution of the program will progress past this line when the condition in the parenthesis has been met. You mentioned, that you have ...
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Is there a KUKA IDE?
There is the official option which you can by from Kuka. It is called Kuka Office. I am not sure about variable suggestions, but this can be used for debugging.
There is also orange edit (currently ...
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How do I Program the Create 2?
You can use a Computer, Arduino, Raspberry Pi or other device that can communicate via serial (using a Create 2 USB cable or build your own) or Bluetooth (if you have a something like the Rootooth or ...
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read from Ultrasonic HC-SR04
Ultrasonic sensors work by emitting a set of pulses and reading the return signal (here is a better overview), this causes problems when you have more than one as they cannot distinguish between their ...
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Relative frame calculation
The operation you mentioned can be mathematically formulated as a matrix multiplication.
You build your homogeneous transformation matrices (4x4) for both frames and multiply them.
After than you ...
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language to code Beaglebone
As one user has said, ROS is a very good framework for robotics platforms that supports python and c++. I highly recommend downloading the VirtualBox image of ROS and giving it a try, it takes about 5 ...
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language to code Beaglebone
Ubuntu is fine if you are familiar with it, if you start having jitter issues you can add the real time mods to the kernel but that is almost certainly not a problem you will face. Adafruit has some ...
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language to code Beaglebone
You're going to want to do this using ros. This will allow you to use both python and cpp. I would reccomend doing all control and estimation in cpp and and camera stuff in python. Ros also works on ...
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What's the most adapted programming language for Robotic and principally AI?
Python has become increasingly popular in the computational sciences, but I'm not sure how widespread is its use in AI, machine learning, or robotics.
What I do know is that one popular choice is ...
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