UPDATE: RTAI-Lab tutorial

A 3rd version of the RTAI-Lab Tutorial is available at:
PDF only    [2.5MB]: https://www.rtai.org/RTAILAB/RTAI-Lab-tutorial.pdf
PDF + files [2.3MB]: https://www.rtai.org/RTAILAB/RTAI-Lab-tutorial.tgz
                           then "tar zxvf RTAI-Lab-tutorial.tgz"

RTAI-Lab tutorial: Scilab, Comedi, and real-time control
by Roberto Bucher, Simone Mannori, and Thomas Netter
47 pages

Updated:
- Updated with respect to RTAI-3.5 and new RTAI-Lab blocks
- Updated with respect to Scilab/Scicos block specification
- Improved custom blocks section
- Corrected udev configuration instructions

Summary of tutorial
RTAI-Lab is a tool chain for real-time software and control system
development. The tutorial shows how to install the various components:
the RTAI real-time Linux kernel, the Comedi interface for control and
measurement hardware, the Scilab/Scicos GUI-based CACSD modeling
software and associated RTAI-Lab blocks, and the xrtailab interactive
oscilloscope. RTAI-Lab's Scicos blocks are detailed and examples show
how to develop elementary block diagrams, automatically generate
real-time executables, and add custom elements.


Thomas Netter  tnetter at ifi.unizh.ch
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
University of Zurich, Switzerland

Received on 2007-03-16Z17:18:42