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From: nbrown@potomac.ads.com (Nathan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Subject: Second Request For Robotics Shell Info
Message-ID: <9165@potomac.ads.com>
Date: 14 Sep 90 23:27:35 GMT
Reply-To: nbrown@potomac.ads.com (Nathan Brown)
Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Arlington VA
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Thanks to everyone who responded to my original request for
information on robotics shells.  I would now like to find out if there
are any competitors with CimStation in commercial or academic
environments in the US or Europe or Japan.  I will post this request
world-wide.

As in the original request for information the desired features are
that the shell allow the specification of:

  operational environment
  robot's environmental representation
  sensor complement
  effector complement
  behavioral characteristics

and provide graphical support for:

  parts interface,
  internal communication structure,
  major internal wiring commonents,
  3-space movement,
  sensor coverage in 3-space.

Design instantiation from parts database is desirable.

N.  Brown-- 

Nathon Brown			UUCP: sun!sundc!potomac!nbrown
Advanced Decision Systems	Internet:  nbrown@potomac.ads.com