[Robotics] Blender and academic world

[Séverin Lemaignan]

> I am rather happy with the semantics of "sensor" and "actuator" and
> "controller" in the Game Engine, since these meanings correspond _very_
> well to the common meaning in robotics :-)

Just to underline that in Damien's case, they want to use external 
devices as sensors to control things inside Blender (which match the 
GameEngine "sensor" concept) while "sensor" can be used as well as 
"simulated sensors" (either proprioceptive or exteroceptive, as stated 
by Herman), and in this case, the sensors values would be outputs of the 
simulator, to be used in external application (robotic software in our 
cases).

Herman, I put your summary of "actuators/sensors/controllers" on the 
wiki since it's an excellent introduction, I think.

Severin
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