José Barata (PhD)

Assistant Professor (UNL) / Researcher (UNINOVA)

Magazines

Software and Utilities for Robots

  • The Rossum Project- Open Source Robotics Software
  • JAUS - Free Open Source Software of the Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems.
  • Player- Free Software tools for robot and sensor applications. This software is installed in the robot and provides a netwrok access to clients.
  • Carmen - Open-source collection of software for mobile robot control.
  • CLARATy - stands for Coupled-Layer Architecture for Robotic Autonomy, is an integrated framework for reusable robotic software. It is a collaborative effort among four institutions: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Ames Research Center, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Minnesota.
  • OROCOS- is an open source set of libraries for advanced motion and robot control. OROCOS comes with its own runtime environment optimized for real-time applications.
  • YARP- Yet Another Robotic Platform
  • Radish - Robotics Data Set. Many data from several sensors.
  • Cogmation - Robot Suite using Simulator.
  • GOSTAI - Robotics for Everyone
  • Robot Battle - A programming game in which you can program your own robots
  • RobotRealm - Robotic vision software application for use in computer vision, image processing, and robot vision tasks.
  • AForge.NET - Based on C#
  • RobotStudio - The Microsoft Environment

 

Readings

 

Construction of Robots

 

Companies Selling Robots

  • Surveyor - A small mobile robot with digital camera

 

Robot Stores

 


Robot Casts