Building Your Way Through RTAI

I wrote this article because I really felt that a document like this was needed, when I started to get my hands on RTAI. After installing RTAI with success understanding all the steps involved, I made a tutorial which i felt it was complete. Now, the same goes to the programming stage, since i found that the necessary information was very scattered. The thing is that the available documentation is very easy to understand for a person who already understands how RTAI works. Well, for a begginer, this level of knowledge is far from being reached, and concise documentation largely helps on this.

You can get the guide following the link: Building Your Way Through RTAI

IMPORTANT NOTE: I want to make very clear that my intention with these guides is not to create nothing new, or overimpose my work above what others have done. I simply intent to help others, by compiling scattered information and explain things the way I understand them, in a way that people don't have to loose hours and hours like I did searching parts of documentation to finally understand a subject.

Hope you find this useful. Feel free to send me some feedback. Note, however, that this document is in an early stage. If you notice any bugs or problems of some kind, please notify me.


Best Regards.
JMonteiro

RTAI Installation Complete Guide.

For this blog inauguration, I decided to submit an article aiming to help the many people working with Real Time Systems. I'm currently working with Real Time at the RAC (Robótica Académica de Coimbra) for the second part of my M.Sc. Project. The software i'm working on, runs on soccer player robots endowed of an embedded computer. For the first part, I developed a software module in C that (very very briefly describing) makes the robots be able to respond to velocity commands from the tactic module of the team, produce a trajectory refered to the world's axis, and control its trajectory making it converge to the desired one. Mabe I'll post an article that I already created about this later.

As for the RTAI installation guide, I compiled all the information that helped me to get my system up and running. I also detailed the kernel configuration step, since i know that this is not an easy process at all.

Here is the link for my tutorial: RTAI_Instalation_Guide.pdf

Feel free to give me feedback on this guide and ask questions.

Best Regards to all!
JMonteiro