[Robotics] Integration of middlewares

[Séverin Lemaignan]

Hello everyone,

I would like to discuss the integration of robotics (or virtual reality) 
middleware in Blender.

I think this could be a very interesting field for cooperation, allowing 
us to develop tools easily reusable by other teams.

I had a talk with Damien Marchal, from IRCICA and he told me about VRPN 
(Virtual Reality Peripheral Network, 
http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/vrpn/). We are using ourselves YARP and 
ROS at LAAS. I know that quite a lot of people are using Player/Gazebo 
for their work.

It would be very nice to have a well identified mechanism allowing the 
use of these middlewares for inputs and outputs in Blender.

I'm currently working with YARP, which is really easy since it has 
Python bindings. Paul Fitzpatrick is one of the lead developpers of YARP 
and he is ready to help on this.

Are you using specific architectures in your labs? how do you see this 
could be integrated in Blender?

Cheers,
Séverin
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