Robotics Questionnaire

This questionnaire, targeted at roboticists and sensor developers, aims at fleshing out the requirements of and priorities for the CommonReality system from this side. The primary concern is determining at what level of granularity command and control information to the sensing side should be represented.

1. What are the primary communications mechanisms between robot/device and control system?

 
Embedded TCP/IP Shared memory
Serial/parallel USB

2. Many systems accept commands at varying levels of abstraction. There is the low level, such as specifying a single actuator’s motion, and then there is the higher level, such as requesting the robot to move its arm “over there”. How would you define the abstraction of your system’s command structure?

 
Low-level only Both High-level only

3. In what ways would you be interested in exploiting cognitive architectures in your robotic research/products?

 
Human modeling (HRI) Real-world control
4. What programming languages, other than custom control systems, are predominantly in use at your lab?
Ada C/C++ Java
Visual Basic Lisp Scheme
Prolog  
 

5. What hardware does the majority of the development take place on?

 
Windows Linux Solaris Mac OS X

6. Comments, Questions, Recommendations

 
10. If you expressed a willingness to help with the development process, please provide your email address.