robotics code released from NASA

[mrhnau]

I have always thought about doing a bit of robotics programming if I had the space/time/money. I've always found the science fascinating Watching those little robot competitions where they trash each other always thrilled me I seem to recall some competitions at MIT that dealt with obsticle navigation and solving obscure physical problems with robotics and a minimal set of equipment.

Well, a few days ago NASA released an early version of their robotics software CLARIty. So cool! I'm going to download it when I get time, but for robot enthusiasts world-wide, this is REALLY exciting stuff! They have removed things that might be considered classified, but you can now look at the code used on many missions. How cool is that!

http://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/news/newsStory.cfm?NewsID=69

CLARAty is the Coupled Layer Architecture for Robotic Autonomy. The first release of its software, version 0.10-beta, is now available publicly at http://claraty.jpl.nasa.gov.

CLARAty is an integrated framework for reusable robotic software. It defines interfaces for common robotic functionality and integrates multiple implementations of any given functionality. Examples of such capabilities include pose estimation, navigation, locomotion and planning. In addition to supporting multiple algorithms, it provides adaptations to multiple robotic platforms. CLARAty development was primarily funded by the Mars Technology Program and it serves as the integration environment for the program's rover technology developments.

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Several modules in this release provide vision infrastructure for images, color images, camera models, 3D point cloud, and surface normal image representations

SWEET! Check it out!

 

[The Master]

I have always thought about doing a bit of robotics programming if I had the space/time/money. I've always found the science fascinating Watching those little robot competitions where they trash each other always thrilled me I seem to recall some competitions at MIT that dealt with obsticle navigation and solving obscure physical problems with robotics and a minimal set of equipment.

Well, a few days ago NASA released an early version of their robotics software CLARIty. So cool! I'm going to download it when I get time, but for robot enthusiasts world-wide, this is REALLY exciting stuff! They have removed things that might be considered classified, but you can now look at the code used on many missions. How cool is that!

http://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/news/newsStory.cfm?NewsID=69



SWEET! Check it out!

Most interesting. Thank you.

 

[CoryKS]

Kewl! I'd like to check that out.