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"And why Python, then? Well, said Sussman, it probably just had a library already implemented for the robotics interface, that was all." I can confirm this is
by mjtokelly 18y ago
"And why Python, then? Well, said Sussman, it probably just had a library already implemented for the robotics interface, that was all."
I can confirm this is true. The Python Robotics module (Pyro) inspired MIT's internal library, SoaR, which was developed at first by a highly motivated TA.
What does SoaR stand for? Snakes on a Robot, of course.
- tlb 18y agoPyro is great. We don't use it because I started our robotics code base in 2001, but if I were starting from scratch I'd use many pieces of it. I believe the main reason why robotics has progressed so slowly in the last 30 years is that getting the damn hardware and firmware working together takes 90% of the available time and students barely get beyond that. So libraries that abstract away most of that and enable plug-in real-time control modules are going to give the field a huge kick in the pants.