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Article #752Re: robot control software
From: Eric C. Olson
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 1990 16:49
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 1990 16:49
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I wrote some code for a gantry arm robot that now lives in LA. This is one of those "back in the old days" stories. The arm had 4DOF and a grip on the hand. The control language was BASIC! on an 8088 board. The language had a few extention words to do i/o to the controler. The machine had a whopping *64K* of memory, 32K of which was used by the *interpreter*. I did get it to work, but the interpreter was too slow. I had a hell of a time convincing the operators that they should buy the compiler. When they did buy it (several weeks *after* the installation) they were amazed that it was so much faster and that the timing in the code had to be re-written. BASIC was not good at all for robot control software. Too slow, too primitive. The only good idea was imbedding the controler commands directly into the language. Eric -- Eric ericco@ssl.berkeley.edu
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