Dear ROS Users, We would like to use Robot Operating System on ATRIAS, the bipedal robot we are building (http://mime.oregonstate.edu/research/drl/Site%20Pages/Atrias.html), but we must have reliable real-time control at 1kHz with communication over an EtherCAT bus.  We have assembled some existing software tools to enable this, including the EtherLab driver and Orocos RTT to tie things all together in real time.  If you are interested in this discussion, please feel free to join the Email list - it has a brief history with one or two summaries of working systems, but I hope we will have much more detailed discussions, or receive pointers to other working systems.  You can sign up for the list here: https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/ethercat-ros Jonathan -- ***************************************************************************** Jonathan W. Hurst Assistant Professor School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering Oregon State University 204 Rogers Hall Corvallis, OR 97331-6001 jonathan.hurst@oregonstate.edu Voice: (541) 737-7010 Fax: (541) 737-2600 http://mime.oregonstate.edu/research/jhurst/ ******************************************************************************