Using microsoft robotics studio for the design of generic robotics controllers: the robubox software (original) (raw)

2007, ICRA 2007 Workshop …

This paper introduces the robuBOX®, being developed by ROBOSOFT and based on Microsoft® Robotics Studio. The ROBOSOFT robuBOX® is a software for the design of generic robotics controllers implementing advanced robotics functions and behaviors. Software for robots is very different than software for computers: a robot is more than a computer with wheels and motors. This statement led ROBOSOFT to define new objects, called robuter®. The robuBOX® provides integrators and manufacturers with an off-the-shelf set of software and hardware modules embedding 80% of the complexity of intelligent service robots. It is based on reference designs for the robots and control architectures that allows to plug, configure and play a robuBOX® on a machine to make it a professional service robot. But it also provides all the required openness for researchers to design a specific control architecture. The robuBOX® has already been implemented in many service robotics applications that are shortly described in this paper. The benefits of such software is then evaluated with respect to existing solutions, in the context of an industrial company, European leader in robotics for professional services.

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