Introduction

MARIE is a robotic development and integration environment focused on software reusability and exploitation of already available APIs and middlewares frequently used in robotics.

The main purpose of MARIE is to create a rapid-prototyping approach to software development in robotics.

==> See Project Description for more details.
==> See Showcase for screenshots and movies of applications using MARIE.
==> See Integrated Softwares for the list of currently integrated softwares.

MARIE is developped at the Research Laboratory on Mobile and Intelligent Systems (LABORIUS) from Université de Sherbrooke.

MARIE is an open source project. Your contribution is welcomed!

News

• 2006/07/17 : Next release on its way. MARIE 0.5 should be available by the end of august. Lots of new cool features will be available. Feel free to contact us to get more information until then.
  
  
• 2006/03/14 : Publications and Project Status sections updated.
  
  
• 2005/12/15 : MARIE participate to B-IT Tutorial on Robot Middleware and Integration
  
  
• 2005/10/04 : Publications section updated.
  
  
• 2005/10/03 : MARIE 0.4 alias Recruit_II and Teleop v0.4 release!!! :-) New Application Adapters and new documentation are available.
  
  
• 2005/07/07 : MARIE will participate to the Robot Challenge during the Fourteenth Annual AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition. We are sorry for still delaying next release, we are currently working really hard on our robot and MARIE...
  
  
• 2005/03/31 : Position paper submitted for ICRA2005 workshop now available in Publications section.
  
  
• 2005/03/31 : MARIE will participate as invited speaker to a workshop entitled "Principle and Practice of Software Development in Robotics: Crafting modular and interoperable systems" on april 18 at ICRA2005 in Barcelona.
  
  
• 2005/03/31 : End of March release pushed back in May. Checkout CVS or check Project Status to see recent developments until then.
  
  
• 2005/02/11 : Added Project Status section and updated Team section.
  
  
• 2005/01/18 : MARIE 0.3 alias Recruit and Teleop v0.3 release!!! :-)
  Core architecture have been refactored to ease development of new components. Visit updated website for more details.
  
  
• 2004/11/16 : RobotFlow 0.2.5 release. Detection of MARIE 0.2 patched! Visit RobotFlow website for more details.
  
  
• 2004/11/04 : MARIE 0.2 alias Waiter and Teleop v0.2 release!!! :-) Visit updated website for more details.
  
  
• 2004/10/12 : Beginning of activities for the 0.2 release
  
  

History

• 2004/09/05 : Update Current Activities section and add Next Release section



• 2004/07/05 : MARIE 0.1 and TeleOp I official releases !!! :-) Visit our new website for more details.



• 2004/06/25 : CVS on sourceforge is now updated with MARIE 0.1 and TeleOp I source code. Documentation and official release are underway.



• 2004/06/18 : We are very close for the MARIE 0.1 and TeleOp I first release. We are tuning the implementation on the real robot and the release will follow.



• 2004/06/02 : Article accepted for IROS2004. See Publications section for more information.



• 2004/05/25 : MARIE 0.1 and TeleOp I project to be released soon (1 or 2 weeks from now). Stay tuned!



• 2004/03/01 : TeleOp I project started.



• 2004/01/16 : ACE is selected as the main communication library for MARIE.



• 2003/12/22 : Proto3 first release (Proof of concept, using ACE).



• 2003/12/07 : Proto2 first release (Proof of concept, using IPC).



• 2003/11/19 : Proto1 first release (Proof of concept, using RCS).



• 2003/10/20 : Marie's design and prototyping phase begin.