Physics implementation

[amorygalili]

Has robot physics been implemented on the server? I need to get things like robot position and heading in order to make an animation in the html interface.

[virtuald]

I would focus on animating the following simple motions instead:

• circular motion, as driven by a motor (perhaps with encoder output, and with a limit switch somewhere?)
• linear motion, as driven by a motor (with limit switches for positions)

Then... we figure out the best way for the user to configure this stuff?

[amorygalili]

Are these general animations that can be used for many things, or are they more specific, like animation specific to an encoder that happens to use a circular motion?

[virtuald]

I was hoping to have some kind of simple thing that you could setup a config to say "setup a circular motion and attach it to jaguar 1", without having to know how to animate things yourself.

[amorygalili]

Is this actually an animation, or could it be something that's periodically sending position/rotation information to observers?

[virtuald]

I don't really see a difference between the two.

[amorygalili]

Well I wasn't sure if by animation you meant that it would actually display the motion itself or if it would send data to some listener which would take care of the actual visual effect.

[virtuald]

That sounds like an implementation detail.