Robotics Features

RoboHACC: Robotic Hardware Collaborative Coding

bboyes — 2008 May 03

Featured at JavaOne 2008 in the Java.net Community Corner - come help us solve a maze with one or more autonomous agents (Sun SPOT directing a Systronix TrackBot)!

TrackBot Sensor Evaluation

bboyes — 2008 Apr 23 (start)

PC-based application which connects to TrackBot through a DCE serial adapter and enables testing and characterization of all eight IR sensors on the TrackBot platform. Includes a screen-based text/graphical display of sensor response in all three sensitivity settings. Command line parameters include which pair of the eight sensors to test at a time. Reports any errors and timeouts. Has been very useful in analyzing PC serial port performance.

TrackBot-Greenfoot

Bruce Boyes — 2008 Jan 18

TrackBot robot simulator support in the Greenfoot IDE and 2-D simulator. Very cool for educational use. Please join and help us add capabilities!

Etching - as seen at JavaOne 2007

James Gosling — 2007 June

This program takes an image and turns it into a vector list for an outline drawing. It was originally used to drive the ABB robot demo at JavaOne 2007. This IRB 340 robot is the fastest in its class with 10G acceleration and 150 pick cycles per minute. It is used for tasks such as sorting croissants and muffins as in this video. Here is a photo.

leRCoS - LEGO Remote Control System

bboyes — 2007 Jan 28

eRCoS is the result of a thesis project. It is working fine on RCX and I'd like to extend it for the NTX brick in order to take advance of Bluetooth communication system!

Jvex-Robotics

2006 May 13

JVEX-robotics is a project to interface the VEX Robotics System controller to Java single board computers. The goal is to free the Java host from low level device management responsibilities by delegating these tasks to the VEX hardware. The result is that Java can easily be used with the VEX kit, which is a great prototyping environment. Featured in BOF-0509 at JavaOne 2006 SFO.

Robotics Application Framework

2005-10-18

RSCL provides a framework to develop applications to simulate and control a mobile robot. It has been used successfully with vastly different medium sized (~150 lb) autonomous ground vehicles.