Player/Stage, Aria and other issues

Hi everyone!

I didn't have the opportunity to post this last days however I think I am beginning to understand how does Player/Stage works. On thursday Renato helped me with the task that demanded to execute the playerjoy utility in order to teleoperate the robot.

Yesterday I was looking at the next task which implied the execution of a sample control program. Before executing the instructions included there, I went to Player/Stage main page to get familiarized with this type of tools. I opened the simple.cfg file and used the graphical tool playerv to see the simulated robot's laser in 2d. I could teleoperate it using one of the optios available at the playerv window. Then, in order to see how would it act with autonomous control I executed the laserobstacleavoid program included in one of the libraries.

What I didn't entirely understood was the part that said i had to "set the correct path value for the serial connector for the robot and laser (connection path known as tty0 or tty1)".

Yesterday I also verified that Aria is already installed in the outdoors Pioneer. I tried to teleoperate the robot and the sick sensor through a demo included in the library, however I kept getting some errors related to the ports, I think I would need to read a little more about the correct usage of this type of software since yesterday I was just sort of inferring and making experimentations without having a clear idea of what I was doing. I think it would be convenient to look at that all together in order to give ideas to each other because some of us are more experienced in certain areas than the others.

I also wanted to suggest that, if you keep having too much trouble installing Player/Stage, we could meanwhile work with my laptop. It would be very helpful if all of you could give me suggestions on how to use all of Player/Stage features.

Finally, for me Carlos's post was a great notice, I am very glad that you are figuring out how to fix the interiors Pioneer.

Take care!