Hi,
I haven't looked at the code you provided a link to, but here goes...
From what I understand C++ robot interface basicly consist of a
"robot_link" object that you have to provide each to you want the
robot to act. I'd say the easiest thing to do is to create a new
octave type in C++ that contains a "robot_link" and then write wrapper
functions to the functions your students need to access.
A tutorial on how to write new types for Octave can be found at
http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?CodaTypes
Hope this helps, if not write again. Your problem should be fairly
easy to solve, although it will require a bit of work.
/Søren
Mike Morley wrote:
> Hi,
> > I see there's been some chatter about this recently, but I have
another > question for the Octave/C++ gurus.
> > I'm currently working on a project that involves robotics in a >
University teaching environment.
> > Students currently control the robot using a C++ program they
write > themselves and a set of commands for which they have the
header files.
> > (I've put the header files and an example program that tests the
link > online at http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mjm80/robot/)
> > What we would ideally like is a higher level way of controlling
the > robot - ie, from Octave. Partly this would enable signal
processing to > become much easier and thus easily extend the range of
tasks we can > expect students to get their robots to perform.
> > As I understand it, I need to create the C++ wrappers for each of
the > functions and then compile this into a .oct file in order to run
it.
> > However: I'm not entirely sure how to do this - is it, for
example, > possible to have a robot_link object that persists for the
entire > Octave program? Would I be able to create a function that
mimics > rlink.command (COMMAND_NAME, var) that takes COMMAND_NAME and
var in as > arguments, or would I have to create a function for each
specific > command?
> > Any help/pointers would be greatly appreciated.
> > - Mike Morley
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