Re: [Playerstage-users] generic position2d driver for homemade robots...

[Olivier R-D <o....@la...>]

Toby Collett wrote:
 > This would be a great thing to do, there are a number of ways you could
 > do this. You driver would need the velocity of the motors (or at least
 > the vehicle) and some measurement values, here are some of the
 > possibilities I can see:
 >  - Subscribe to an actarray interface that provides the velocities of
 > the two motors
 >  - Subscribe to two position1d devices that provide the velocities
 >  - Subscribe to a position 2d that provides velocity and angular
 > rotation and use that to accumulate the odometry.
 >
 > The geometry info can be provided as properties to the driver.

Thank you for the suggestions ! I will start implementing my driver 
using one of the last 2 to get use to the player API. we'll see later 
what I come up with. I am just starting my phd so I have some time to 
invest ....
Olivier