statgrab

Player driver for the health of a robot. More...

Player driver for the health of a robot.

Author

Raphael Sznitman

Date

23.06.2005

The health driver allows for a user to get general systems data concerning a specific robot. Allows a user to look at cpu and memory usage of the robot.

Provides

• health : Interface to the health

Configuration file options:

• frequency (int)
  • Default: 100

Notes

libstatgrab:

The driver uses the library libstatgrab in order to fetch data concerning the cpu and the memory usage. Documentation on this library can be found at: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/.

Example: The following configuration file should demonstrate the use of this

driver.

driver
(
  name "statgrab"
  provides ["health:0"]
  frequency 10
)

Todo:

• Test this code more!
• Allow for the driver to return the temperature of the system in multiple location of the robot.
• Also allow for the battery voltage to be monitored.

Author

Raphael Sznitman

Date

23.06.200