[Playerstage-users] Player driver on Windows for ERSP robots

[Jorge S. S. <jsa...@gm...>]

Hi all!

Good news (well, maybe...) for those scarce users of the ER1 robot:
read this if you are interested in using your robot with player/stage
platform....

There is a driver developed by people from the DIKU university
(Denmark) (thank you, guys!) that allows using ERSP robots with
player/stage, but it is only for Linux. For those that have only the
Windows version of the ERSP 2.0 (like me) I have ported the driver to
windows.

It is in a early stage of development, but it works well to access
motors, battery charge, oddometry, gripper, Evolution IR sensors and
custom range sensors with analog output. I plan to add more staff
(speech, vision and a PTZ camera) in the near future.

Let me know if anyone is interested in trying the driver to post it
here. I suppose there are no problems with distributing/modifying it,
as it is GNU-licensed. I hope this will help someone...

Regards,
Jorge


PS: Thanks to the authors: Bue Petersen, Jonas Fonseca and Jesper Carlson.