Robotics questions

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Nov 9 08:41:20 UTC 2005


Hi Joaquin

Thanks for your nice summary.
Do you have a page that describe your environment?

Stef

On 9 nov. 05, at 02:33, Joaquin Sitte wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> 1. Stephane's book, has nothing to do with real robots. It is a gentle
> introduction, and a very nice one, to programming in Smalltalk  
> aimed at
> beginners (kids) that uses the robot metaphor to visualise the  
> execution of
> programs. It is very much in the spirit of learning programming  
> with turtle
> graphics.
>
> I too am trying to use Squeak for real robotics and I have also  
> bought and
> Stephane's book (although for other reasons). There is nothing in  
> the book
> that is immediately useful for real robotics, it was not meant to  
> be and the
> purpose if different.
>
> 2. and 3.
> I am using Squeak in my lectures on Computational Intelligence for  
> Embedded
> Systems for third and fourth year university students in  
> Engineering and
> Information Technology. Students are given a simulator for mobile  
> robots
> (the Khepera robots to be precise) running in Squeak where they can  
> develop
> robot behaviours (including autonomous robot soccer players). The  
> simulator
> also supports controlling Khepera robots from a PC via a wireless
> (Bluetooth) link. The same (Smalltalk) behaviour code can be used
> identically to control the simulated Khepera robot and the real robot.
>
> In another ongoing project we are adapting the Squeak VM to run on  
> a bare
> XScale processor without underlying operating system.
>
> I am not aware of other current work on Smalltalk for Robotics,  
> although
> there probably are a few things being done. I remember some time  
> ago seeing
> someone mentioning on this list a robotic underwater vehicle  
> controlled by
> Smalltalk. Also Squeak has been ported to the Gumstix SBC. The  
> Gumstix SBC
> has been recently used in robotics projects (but not using Squeak,  
> as far as
> I am aware).
>
> Cheers
>
> Joaquin
>
>
>
>
> Dr. Joaquin Sitte,  Associate Professor.
> School of Software Engineering and Data Communication Faculty of  
> Information
> Technology
> Queensland University of Technology
> GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, Q 4001 Australia
> Phone +61 7 3864 9325
> Fax +61 7 3864 9390
> e-mail: j.sitte at qut.edu.au
> homepage http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/~sitte
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