Lessons learned using JavaFX and FXML
I am personally a big proponent of JavaFX’s combination of FXML + CSS + Java for GUI development. When used appropriately it results in a clean separation of concerns that allows designers an...
Software for Robots
JDK 15: A world beyond Nashorn
Figure 1. A migrating Nashorn. Photo by Wolfgang Hasselmann Update: Nashorn was made available as a standalone dependency. Nashorn is a JavaScript engine that compiles JavaScript into bytec...
Efficient Data Acquisition in MATLAB: Streaming HD Video in Real-Time
The acquisition and processing of a video stream can be very computationally expensive. Typical image processing applications split the work across multiple threads, one acquiring the images, and a...
Using MATLAB for hardware-in-the-loop prototyping #1 : Message Passing Systems
MATLAB© is a programming language and environment designed for scientific computing. It is one of the best languages for developing robot control algorithms and is widely used in the research ...
Analyzing the viability of Ethernet and UDP for robot control
Ethernet is the most pervasive communication standard in the world. However, it is often dismissed for robotics applications because of its presumed non-deterministic behavior. In this article, we ...
A Practical Look at Latency in Robotics : The Importance of Metrics and Operating Systems
This is the first in a series of blog posts where I will try to share some of my own impressions and findings that have stemmed from several years of creating tools for robotics research. Latency...