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RE: Visit to MDRobotics/SPAR
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Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:11:24 GMT
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Calum wrote:
> What's really nifty about the small arm is that it is heavily distributed in
> its control. The arm is driven from an electronics package which runs Wind
> River Systems' VXWorks operating system on a radhardended flight ready CPU
> board.
Overkill on the OS, but then again it's off the shelf so you don't need
to spend 1 or 2 man years designing, coding, and testing....
> A good part of the evening was a talk about the systems engineering
> methodologies and processes they used to develop the new arm. They took a
> small team (10 engineers) and a small budget ($2.5M-well, small is relative)
> and did the entire project in 15 months, on budget and on schedule! Now
> that's project management.
Yes!!! Small teams of dedicated smart people can make all the difference.
Cheers, Ralph
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| (...) They specifically pointed out they used VxWorks because of being able to program in C++. I've noticed a lot of their job ads etc stress object oriented programming experience. Apparently the older arms are done with much lower level (...) (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Visit to MDRobotics/SPAR
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| Hey folks, Last night I visited MacDonald Dettwiler Robotics (MDRobotics), formerly known as SPAR Aerospace, the Canadian company that brought you the Canadarm Remote Manipulator System. The Toronto chapter of INCOSE, the International Council on (...) (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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