Comedi over a network + CORBA/XML

We have had a meeting with a dozen or so free software projects
working in "control" (www.linuxincontrol.org), and spent a discussion
on Comedi. The result are these few questions:

- is it possible/easy with the current API to do the following:
  acquire data from different devices, with a common time stamp, and
  within one single command specification?

- what is the feeling towards "networked" data acquisition? That is,
  would it make sense to define low-level drivers for USB, CAN, ...
  and add the Comedi acquisition functions on top of these?
  (USB implementation seems to be going on anyway :-)

- some people (including myself) are interested in wrapping Comedi
  into an XML and/or CORBA interface, in order to be able to embed the
  acquisition into other control applications. Any comments on this?

Herman
-- 
  K.U.Leuven, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics Research Group
<http://people.mech.kuleuven.ac.be/~bruyninc> Tel: +32 16 322480

Received on 2003-05-11Z06:13:16