Anyone interested in a Linux-based robot solution?

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Originally Posted by dcherba

The reason regular computers were not used in these control application is that the standard OS methods of thread control produce undesirable issues that degrade quality of control.

Originally Posted by dcherba

diving into the libraries to fix some of the quality of control issues will require a style of software methodology that we do not teach in computer science or engineering. In fact as faculty we would fail students if they used some of the methods required to solve the realtime control issues. (ironic actually)

Hi David,

I am very interested in the above comments. Would you provide a bit more detail and perhaps an example or two of what you mean?

Thank you.


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