Tuesday, February 26, 2008

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