Orca Tutorials

Note:

Our goal is to make the info in these tutorials clear and accurate, but ... things change in how the components are configured and run. Since we don't have an automated way to test the tutorials so we don't catch the errors right away. So let us know when something is not quite right. Signing up to the user mailing list is easy and does not require an approval. Send us a quick a email, we'll help you out and fix the documentation. Thanks.

System composition

• Quick-Start Guide (with optional explanation)
• Driving a robot simulated with Player/Stage
• A bigger system with Player/Stage simulator
• Using Orca with Player/Gazebo simulator
• Closed-loop control of a robot simulated with Player/Stage

Special topics

• Connecting components without the Registry
• Cross-OS operation: Linux and Windows

Using Ice Services

• Running components inside the IceBox server
• Deploying components with the IceGrid Node

Operation

• Logging interface data in text format
• Using utilities
• Testing Orca Latencies

Writing Components

• Writing a super-simple component : a line-by-line guide through the Brick code (with a follow-up on how to run it)
• PureIce : an example of writing a C++ component "from scratch" without using libOrcaIce.
• PureIceJ : an example of writing a Java component.
• Cross-framework examples: Orca2Yarp and Player2Orca.
• See also: All code examples
• See also: Developer's Guide