Public Summary Month 1/2013

The past two months at both partners continued the work of the previous two. At BRSU, the main new achievement is the availability of a public beta test version of our graphical programming system, which itself is based on the 3rd-party Blockly open source framework. This first beta (http://demo.edufill.org) still as many rough edges and will undergo significant changes in the next months, based on internal and external feedback. The necessary runtime environment is still under heavy development, although significant progress had been made at both partners sites. In particular, at UniVR the focus has been on testing of 2D and 3D SLAM libraries, and their compatibility with the ROS software infrastructure installed on the two youBot platforms; the goal is to build a consistent 3D world model by using sensor fusion algorithms. An alternative Inverse Kinematics solution implementation, which combines base and arm motions, is under development. Both partners investigated the navigation stack of ROS, in order to evaluate the feasibility of adding a custom mobile base motion planner that would emphasize more the holonomic properties of the youBot platform.

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