8:34 pm Communication, Database
When I saw this, I thought of the USARSim team. Google has open-sourced code named “Protocol Buffers” , a system for serializing structured data for use in communicaitons protocols, and data storage.
Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages. You can even update your data structure without breaking deployed programs that are compiled against the “old” format.
Google Open Source Blog: Protocol Buffers: Google’s Data Interchange Format
I don’t know if this would be helpful in storing and transmitting robot info over the network, but thought I’d post it here to see if anyone else thought it was interesting.
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