I was recently asked for a demo of how to manipulate motors, servos, and sensors using the SimScript Plugin Engine. This demo will help anyone interested in creating dynamic servo/sensor/motor scripts that can extend your robotics applications, without having to recompile the robotics software every time a new robotics application is needed.
For example:
A robot use to insert screws and screw them in by number of turns. After some time, it was noticed that a few of the screws were odd in their thread count, and the screws were not being torqued properly. So torque sensors were added to the robotic arm, and a small change was added to the “Screw-In Script” to account for the torque sensor, and now all screws are properly torqued the same.
Using dynamic robotics scripts, one robot may serve innumerable purposes or be adjusted incrementally for efficiency.
Here is the crash-course demo of ‘How-To’ use the SimScript Plugin Engine to get started designing dynamic robotics software.
Download: http://www.xojodevspot.com/demos/Robot-ServoController.xojo_binary_project
