Modular Controller Architecture 2 / News: Recent posts

A new CAN driver has been released with minor updates and some bug fixes.

The new MCA2.4.4 release requires a new version of the CAN driver.

MCA2.4.4 has been released. We added the "microcontroller" and "hardware" libraries which are needed to work with our UCOM boards..

Uses LXRT for realtime capabilitites.
Compiles with rtai 3.1 and 3.2 and linux kernels
2.4.x and 2.6.x
Uses build system scons instead of make

compiles with Qt2.x and Qt3.x
compiles with gcc2.9.x and gcc3.x
many bugfixes, very stable

Everthing works very stable now.
Blackboards are now available within RT-Linux
and also exported to non-RT-applikations.
System performance on Windows is much more better
now.

The online documentation (finally) meets the actual MCA2 release.

This new version works on kernel versions 2.2.x and 2.4.x .

We released our first tutoial on how to use MCA2 in order to simulate and control a puma robot.

Although this is a pre-release everything works stable except the new Blackboard-features.
Blackboards permit to process mass data that can not be handled by edges.
The system timing is now completely scalable.

Since the kernel patch for RTLinux is at the
moment not available, we were forced to do our
own patch for the i386 architecture and kernel
version 2.4.16.

We take no guarantee for this patch but at our labs it works fine !

You will find in the rtl-patch package !

Some minor bugfixes.
MCAGUI plugins capability.
Visual C++ files included.

The module providing higher mathematic functions under realtime linux from the MCA distribution has been released in an extra MCA indepenmdent package.

The CAN device driver and CAN monitor for Linux
and RT-Linux is now available in an extra package.

It has taken awhile, but now the api reference
on the sourceforge webpage reflects the latest
release. See http://mca2.sf.net/

We are actually working on a tutorial. This will be available in 2 or 3 weeks.
The newest version of MCAGUI is able to handle plugins. We will release this in a few days as soon as this feature works on windows too.

The 1.0-final release is ready for download. We did many bugfixes without changing the user interface.

We inserted a short introduction (html) on the homepage.
Also a first documentation in pdf-format is available there. (Unfortunately it is in german and of course not completed yet)

We proudly announce the first release of

MCA2 - Modular Controller Architecture Version 2 .

For the effective development and realization of different robot
prototypes the use of transferable electronic and software components
is a very important aspect. Reusable components with standardized
interfaces lead to extendable architectures. We developed a scalable
hardware architecture and a modular software system that satisfy these
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