[Pkg-ace-devel] YARP built on ACE

[Anne van Rossum]

Hi Marek,

Nice to meet a fellow roboticist. :-)

YARP is especially useful for modular robots. Those robots are individual
robot modules that form together a robot organism. YARP allows *on-the-fly
reconfiguration* of communication channels between those robots and their
software components. A component does not need to know which other component
to connect to, in other words it supports exogenous coordination. Moreover,
it can be used as in Player/Stage to communicate with a simulator in a
transparent way. I really hope it will become the new standard in robotics.
It is already used by many projects, see e.g. http://www.icub.org/

Kind regards,

Anne

On 25 August 2010 14:57, Marek Brudka <mbrudka at aster.pl> wrote:

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> Hi Anne,
>
> It is a pity I cannot sponsor your package. I am not DD, just plain doc
> writer/packager. But I am a roboticists! :)
>
> BTW. YARP is quite adequate. 10 years ago I programmed robots in my PhD
> thesis using MRROC++ package (QNX). I am not sure if it is still alive,
> I have to ask my old university mates about it when I meet them in the
> next few months.
>
> Marek
>
>
> W dniu 24.08.2010 23:21, Anne van Rossum pisze:
> > Dear ACE developers,
> >
> > For your information, YARP is a communication infrastructure that uses
> ACE. If you are interested in supporting it, please, feel free to
> contact me. YARP stands for *Yet Another Robot Platform*. This
> description is quite modest, there is no other robot platform that I
> know off. Its upstream developers are very friendly and eager to apply
> patches. I hope it's not rude to send this email. There are not a lot of
> roboticists who are also DDs. :-)
> >
> > I would like to make use of the opportunity to thank you for your
> software and packaging efforts.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Anne
> >
> > PS: This is the email I sent to debian-mentors.
> >
> > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "yarp".
> >
> >
> >
> > * Package name    : yarp
> >   Version         : 2.3.0-1
> >   Upstream Author : Paul Fitzpatrick <paulfitz at alum.mit.edu
> <mailto:paulfitz at alum.mit.edu>>
> > * URL             : http://eris.liralab.it/yarp/
> >
> >
> > * License         : GNU LGPLv2.1 (unless otherwise stated)
> >   Section         : net
> >
> > It builds these binary packages:
> > libyarp    - Library support for YARP network of ports and devices
> > libyarp-dev - Header files for YARP library
> >
> >
> >
> > libyarp-dev0 - YARP network of devices
> > libyarp-init0 - YARP network initialisation
> > libyarp-os0 - YARP network of ports
> > libyarp-sig0 - YARP image processing interfaces
> > yarp-bin   - CLI to YARP network of ports and devices
> >
> >
> >
> > yarp-doc   - Documentation for YARP library
> > yarp-view  - Graphical viewer for data on the YARP network
> >
> > The package appears to be lintian clean. Upstream is eager to apply
> patches.
> >
> > My motivation for maintaining this package is: YARP (Yet Another Robot
> Platform) is unique
> >
> >
> >
> >  in its kind. It provides a general interface to allow for TCP, UDP,
> shared memory, and
> >  multicast communication. We intend to use it in Robot3D, a simulator
> for modular robots,
> >  at https://launchpad.net/robot3d. Screenshots can be seen at
> http://www.robotcognition.eu/
> >
> >
> >
> >  Robot3D builds on Delta3D (http://www.delta3d.org
> <http://www.delta3d.org/>, also in need for sponsoring). Using
> >  YARP Robot3D can be a real competitor for Player/Stage with respect to
> pluggability.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > The package can be found on mentors.debian.net
> <http://mentors.debian.net/>:
> > - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/y/yarp
> >
> >
> > - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
> main contrib non-free
> >
> > - dget
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/y/yarp/yarp_2.3.0-1.dsc
> >
> >
> >
> > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.
> >
> >
> > Kind regards
> >  Anne van Rossum
> >
> >
> >
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