[Robotics] "Blender for robotics" workshop at the European robotics meeting (March 12)

[Herman Bruyninckx]

Dear all,

on Friday March 12, 2010, I will organize a "Blender for robotics" workshop
on the European robotics Annual Meeting, in San Sebastian, Spain.
  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Sebasti%C3%A1n>
The workshop will last two hours, and will be open to everyone, also
non-EURON members. Here is a draft description; please comment and update.
Let me know something if you want to present something, or when you have a
suggestion for the programme.

Herman Bruyninckx
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Blender for robotics

Motivation:
this is the second workshop of the "Blender for robotics" initiative
<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Robotics:Index>, which works with the
Blender community to make its open source 3D computer animation programme
more fit for advanced robot simulation and programming.

Topics:
The workshop invites participants to discuss where the initiative should
work towards, and reports on major ongoing work. Such as the "OpenRobots
Simulator" <http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Robotics:Simulators/OpenRobots>
and the constraints-based IK solver 
<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Source/GameEngine/RobotIKSolver>.
Also the new opportunities offered by the 2.5 version 
<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Blender2.5>
will be discussed: easily customized panels (e.g., to make robot-specific
GUIs), game engine improvements, etc

Expected results:
new concrete cooperations ideas should come out of the workshop, and
existing ones should get a boost from the interaction with the
participants.

How can you contribute:
by volunteering to take up some development work (e.g. via visits to the
labs that are already contributing), and by providing
constructively critical remarks to the ongoing activities and suggestions
for future work and potential applications.

Contact the organizer:
  Herman.Bruyninckx at mech.kuleuven.be
  <http://people.mech.kuleuven.be/~bruyninc/>