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Unread 30-11-2011, 22:44
shuhao shuhao is offline
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Re: Rookie team seeking some programming advice

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If you haven't yet experienced the joys of programming something that reacts to the outside world in realtime through sensors and actuators
Unfortunately I have not, which is why I don't know how practical it is to attempt to develop AIs, as I don't know how long it will take to hammer out all the issues with basic control.

I have a good understanding of the theory for AIs that's like these, but I have yet to find the the time to implement the theories behind them, especially on actual hardware, rather than simulated environments.

And since we are a rookie team, we have no prior experiences telling us how long it takes to write basic functions etc.

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supply their own matrix math functions (for example)
Good idea. Gonna get the team to start porting/writing a basic linear algebra library.


Edit:

Just noticed http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=87260

Since my primary language (also currently as lead programmer) is Python, and I have some numpy experience (as oppose to no experience in any Java Lin. Alg library, if they manage to get it ported, and I could try helping, too), is it worth a try to get Python onto cRIO and then go from there?

A text editor (geany) + ftp (nautilus) sounds like heaven to me (minus the initial wind river stuff, but not a big deal)

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