Support for ARNL Autonomous Navigation & Localization library from ActivRobots
(in collaboration with Patrick Frenette)

Invisible to most end users, Autonomous Robotic Navigation & Localization (ARNL) software adds robot localization to the base of ARIA libraries. ARNL uses Monte Carlo / Markov localization techniques and navigation using a modified value iterated search approach.

Support for SMC - The State Machine Compiler
(in collaboration with Patrick Frenette)

A state machine generator that can be easily use to develop applications.

Support for Webots

The Webots mobile robotics simulation software provides you with a rapid prototyping environment for modelling, programming and simulating mobile robots.

Users and developers documentations.

Core unit tests & automatic testing.

Project management tools.

Application Manager and Communicatin Manager implementation.

Enhance support for already integrated softwares such as CARMEN, Player/Stage/Gazebo and Aria.

Enhance support for management features in MARIE (Application Manager, Communication Manager, Application Adapters management requests, etc.).

Create high-level interfaces for MARIE (GUI, configuration files management, project management, etc.).

Add support for dynamic connections and configurations.

Add support for common protocols in robotics (CORBA, IPC, UDP, etc.).

Add support for common robotics programming environment (OROCOS, Orca, Genom, etc.).

Add support for common robotics functionnalities (vision, AI, control, etc.).

Add support for script and interpreted programming languages (Python, Lush, LISP, etc.).