How is it going?

How is it going?

Is anyone using the ARIA beta? 

Has anyone encountered any problems with the software?

I'll be releasing a new beta soon, so if anyone has encountered any
problems please let me know about them and I'll try to fix them before
that version.  The only two problems I'm aware of are bad failure
conditions in Windows 200.

The main addition to the next beta version of ARIA is that the main
loop is chained to when the SIP (Server Information Packet) comes back
from the robot, instead of just waiting 100ms.  This has a few
benefits, first it means that everything will respond more quickly
(since it'll be fired up just after the SIP has come from the
robot/sim).  It also enables the software to tell to a much greater
degree when the SIP came in (since its blocking waiting for the first
byte of data), so that ARIA can do much better position interpolation.
Oh, all packets are also processed when they come in, and are also
timestamped accurately (as is the SIP).

Matt LaFary
ActivMedia Robotics