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From: hinkle1@phobos.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com (David Hinkle)
Subject: Re: RWI B21 vs. NOMAD 200
Message-ID: <1994Sep4.203632.10123@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com>
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Co., Palo Alto, CA
References: <33uojp$30s@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 94 20:36:32 GMT
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In article <33uojp$30s@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de> prassler@faw.uni-ulm.de (Erwin Prassler) writes:
>Hi!
>
>Is anybody out there who has experience with either the B21 platform 
>sold by RWI or the NOMAD 200 platform from NOMADIC technologies? I am
>thinking of a configuration which includes 
>
> *  a mobile base
> *  a sonar ring
> *  a ring of IR sensors
> *  a programming environment 
>    - which provides a higher-level control language with commands
>      like move(A,B) or turn(X)
>    - which also allows one to access the lower levels of control 
>      and set and read parameters such as the motor velocity.
>
>Both companies seem to offer such a configuration. Besides the price - 
>the NOMAD 200 platform seems to be cheaper - what is the difference 
>between both systems, what are their advantages and disadvantages, and 
>which one is better?
>
>Any information is welcome!
>
>-- Erwin Prassler
>   
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