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Forum Newbie
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| I think it would be prudent to include a heartbeat function into the serializer. If for some reason (application crash, signal lost, or usb/rs232 becomes disconnected) an ALL STOP command would be issued to the motors. This would prevent the bot from running off a cliff (or better yet into my walls or furniature  ) What does everyone think? -Xphile1999
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Supreme Being
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| I think this is a good idea. We'll try to get it shoe-horned in over the Christmas holidays. We'll also ensure that you can enable/disable this feature, and possible configure the heartbeat interval. Thanks for the suggestion! Best Regards!
Jason Summerour
President,
Summerour Robotics Corporation
www.roboticsconnection.com
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Supreme Being
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I am late to respond but I agree Xphile.
The heartbeat you suggest would eliminate having to add a
processor on board just to handle possible communication failures.
I am a big fan of fail safe mechanisms.
Jason, I know your a busy guy. I am just chiming in.
Don Lewis
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Supreme Being
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| Actually, this is at the top of my list...I'm going to try to shoe-horn it in over the next week. Best Regards!
Jason Summerour
President,
Summerour Robotics Corporation
www.roboticsconnection.com
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