Search Results - Software tools for robot programming

Message flow analysis with complex causal links for distributed ROS 2 systems by Bédard, Christophe, Lajoie, Pierre-Yves, Beltrame, Giovanni, Dagenais, Michel

“…Distributed robotic systems rely heavily on the publish–subscribe communication paradigm and middleware frameworks that support it, such as the Robot Operating System (ROS…”
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Deploying and Evaluating LLMs to Program Service Mobile Robots by Hu, Zichao, Lucchetti, Francesca, Schlesinger, Claire, Saxena, Yash, Freeman, Anders, Modak, Sadanand, Guha, Arjun, Biswas, Joydeep

“… We contribute CodeBotler , an open-source robot-agnostic tool to program service mobile robots from natural language, and RoboEval , a benchmark for evaluating LLMs' capabilities of generating…”
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Impact of ROS 2 Node Composition in Robotic Systems by Macenski, Steve, Soragna, Alberto, Carroll, Michael, Ge, Zhenpeng

“…The Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) is the second generation of ROS representing a step forward in the robotic framework…”
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ros2_tracing: Multipurpose Low-Overhead Framework for Real-Time Tracing of ROS 2 by Bedard, Christophe, Lutkebohle, Ingo, Dagenais, Michel

“…Testing and debugging have become major obstacles for robot software development, because of high system complexity and dynamic environments…”
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Motion Comparator: Visual Comparison of Robot Motions by Wang, Yeping, Peseckis, Alexander, Jiang, Zelong, Gleicher, Michael

“… However, most existing visualization tools are designed for individual motions and lack the features necessary to facilitate robot motion comparison…”
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A High-Fidelity Simulation Platform for Industrial Manufacturing by Incorporating Robotic Dynamics Into an Industrial Simulation Tool by Zhang, Zengjie, Dershan, Ram, Enayati, Amir M. Soufi, Yaghoubi, Marjan, Richert, Dean, Najjaran, Homayoun

“… For example, robots equipped with intelligent algorithms potentially lead to task failure if the software is sensitive…”
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An Image-Guided Robotic System for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: System Development and Experimental Evaluation by Liu, Yihao, Zhang, Jiaming, Ai, Letian, Tian, Jing, Sefati, Shahriar, Liu, Huan, Martin-Gomez, Alejandro, Kheradmand, Amir, Armand, Mehran

“… Compared to manual operators, robots may improve the outcome due to their superior accuracy and repeatability…”
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From Composable Models to Correct-by-Construction Software for Contact-Rich Robotic Mobile-Manipulation Tasks by Schneider, Sven, Kalagaturu, Vamsi, Bruyninckx, Herman, Hochgeschwender, Nico

“…Software frameworks like the Stack of Tasks (SoT), the Stanford Whole-Body Control (WBC…”
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CusADi: A GPU Parallelization Framework for Symbolic Expressions and Optimal Control by Jeon, Se Hwan, Hong, Seungwoo, Lee, Ho Jae, Khazoom, Charles, Kim, Sangbae

“…The parallelism afforded by GPUs presents significant advantages in training controllers through reinforcement learning (RL). However, integrating model-based…”
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Automatic Geometric Decomposition for Analytical Inverse Kinematics by Ostermeier, Daniel, Kulz, Jonathan, Althoff, Matthias

“…Calculating the inverse kinematics (IK) is a fundamental challenge in robotics. Compared to numerical or learning-based approaches, analytical IK provides…”
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RadaRays: Real-Time Simulation of Rotating FMCW Radar for Mobile Robotics via Hardware-Accelerated Ray Tracing by Mock, Alexander, Magnusson, Martin, Hertzberg, Joachim

“… Our software is able to handle large numbers of objects and materials in real-time, making it suitable for use in a variety of mobile robotics applications…”
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OHM: GPU Based Occupancy Map Generation by Stepanas, Kazys, Williams, Jason, Hernandez, Emili, Ruetz, Fabio, Hines, Thomas

“…Occupancy grid maps (OGMs) are fundamental to most systems for autonomous robotic navigation. However, CPU-based implementations struggle to keep up with data…”
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ros2tracing: Multipurpose Low-Overhead Framework for Real-Time Tracing of ROS 2 by Bedard, Christophe, Lutkebohle, Ingo, Dagenais, Michel

“…Testing and debugging have become major obstacles for robot software development, because of high system complexity and dynamic environments…”
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STLCG++: A Masking Approach for Differentiable Signal Temporal Logic Specification by Kapoor, Parv, Mizuta, Kazuki, Kang, Eunsuk, Leung, Karen

“…Signal Temporal Logic (STL) offers a concise yet expressive framework for specifying and reasoning about spatio-temporal behaviors of robotic systems…”
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navlie: A Python Package for State Estimation on Lie Groups by Cossette, Charles Champagne, Cohen, Mitchell, Korotkine, Vassili, Del Castillo Bernal, Arturo, Shalaby, Mohammed Ayman, Forbes, James Richard

“… Lie group theory is now mainstream in the robotics community, and hence estimation prototyping tools should allow state definitions that belong to manifolds…”
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Understanding Xacro Misunderstandings by Albergo, Nicholas, Rathi, Vivek, Ore, John-Paul

“…The Xacro XML macro language can be used to augment the Universal Robot Description Format (URDF…”
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Teaching Joint-Level Robot Programming with a New Robotics Software Tool by Gonzalez, Fernando, Zalewski, Janusz

“… In this paper, we introduce a new educational robotics tool developed for teaching joint programming…”
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A Software Products Line as Educational Tool to Learn Industrial Robots Programming with Arduino by Solis Pino, Andrés Felipe, Ruiz, Pablo H., Hurtado Alegria, Julio Ariel

“…Software reuse has potential for educational purposes since it uses decomposition and abstraction, two necessary skills to learn programming…”
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Robot Operating System (ROS) for Absolute Beginners - Robotics Programming Made Easy (2nd Edition) by Lentin Joseph, Aleena Johny

“… You'll learn the basic foundation of Ubuntu Linux. Begin with the fundamentals. Installation and useful commands will give you the basic tools you need while programming a robot…”
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Skill-based instruction of collaborative robots in industrial settings by Schou, Casper, Andersen, Rasmus Skovgaard, Chrysostomou, Dimitrios, Bøgh, Simon, Madsen, Ole

“…•A skill-based software system that facilitates easy and fast instruction of collaborative robots by inexperienced operators…”
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