From MARIE

Contents 1 Work In Progress 1.1 Application Adapters 1.2 Communication Strategies 1.3 Documentation 1.4 Testing 1.5 Tools 2 Wish List 3 Roadmap Activities 3.1 Version 1.0 – 2006 4 Next Release

Work In Progress

Application Adapters

• Support for ARNL Autonomous Navigation & Localization library from ActivRobots
• Support for SMC - The State Machine Compiler
• Support for Player 2
• Support for Webots

Communication Strategies

• Support for Broadcast
• Support for multiple Socket Connectors for Socket Acceptor

Documentation

• Users and Developers documentations
• Tutorials and Guides

Testing

• Core unit tests & automatic testing

Tools

• Project management tools
• Application Manager and Communication Manager implementation

Wish List

• Enhance support for management features in MARIE (Application Manager, Communication Manager, Application Adapters management requests, etc.).
• Create and enhance 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, MatLab, etc.).

Roadmap Activities

Version 1.0 – 2006

• Solid framework (tested with medium to large scale integration projects).
• Complete design implementation.
• Many useful Application Adapters and Communication Adapters.
• Compatible with couple of commonly used protocols.
• Prototypes of high-level interfaces (GUIs) available.
• Couple of projects available in MARIE's showcase .
• User friendly (not only accessible for power-users).
• Small community of users.

Next Release

To be announced.