Re: Hi

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Robert Zeiler <RZeiler@une.edu> wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone has (or had) experience with LISP code for controlling a robotic arm?
> …
> I am up to the point where I want to add an arm or two.

Hello,

My university lab has used various things to control a SCORBOT ER IX
and a three fingered hand made by Barrett as part of a Psychometric AI
program [1].  There's also a cognitive robotics labs in the department
[2] and they have a number of robot arms as well (not SCORBOTs, but
something smaller.  I don't know how they're controlling them though.

I haven't personally worked with the robot, but I think there have
been two approaches — one was to write the foreign function interface
for the C/C++ library API that came with the robot.  The other used a
pipe to communicate with an interactive shell that the robot provides.

I haven't been particularly involved with either of these programs,
and the SCORBOT isn't seeing much use right now, but I can try to put
you in touch with people who might know more it, and also with people
in the cognitive robotics lab if you'd like.

[1] http://rair.cogsci.rpi.edu/pai/ (rather outdated)
[2] http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2807

-- 
Joshua Taylor, http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~tayloj/