Re: [Playerstage-users] Problem moving real robot - Pioneer watchdog timer

[Brian G. <br...@ge...>]

On Mar 16, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Reed Hedges wrote:

> Geoffrey Biggs wrote:
>> The Pioneer robots will stop if they don't receive a command from  
>> Player for a certain length of time. This is a safety measure, and  
>> means that if you lose your connection to the Player server the  
>> robot will more likely stop than go crazy.
>
>
> Related to this, I can submit an enhancement request that the  
> firmware beep when it stops the robot because of this, if you guys  
> think it would be useful for diagnosing this issue when/if it comes  
> up again in the future.

Even though that turned out not to be the problem here, it sounds  
like a useful feature.

	brian.