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NASA Frees Their Robotics Software

Posted by samzenpus on from the now-everyone-will-make-robots dept.

kremvax writes "It's a field day for robotics hackers everywhere, as NASA releases the first installment of their CLARAty reusable robotic software framework to the public. According to the JPL press release, these modules contain everything from math infrastructure to device drivers for common motors and cameras, and computer vision, image, and 3D processing."

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  1. Just a peek cannot hurt by Argos+Avatar · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It is free, runs on linux and mac, supports a wide variety of hardware, has libraries for 3d image recognition, was tested in autonomous robots on mars...
    I work developing a similar system. I hope my boss does not come across slashdot, because my job would be seriously endangered.

    (or perhaps i should only have a peek or two in the code)

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    1. Re:Just a peek cannot hurt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      If your interest is computer vision, don't forget about OpenCV: http://www.intel.com/technology/computing/opencv/ - actually some algorithms in NASA's framework are taken from OpenCV.

      It's funny how things happen - just as I started researching how to calibrate cameras using only manual correspondences between images (no information about world geometry known - suggestions anyone?), NASA releases their framework... That I call luck.

  2. Article attribution - MrFuture.com by kremvax · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hmm, interesting. Slashdot seems to have clipped my article attribution out. This was originally blogged at http://mrfuture.com/ And my quote was lifted directly from there.

    Anyone know of a way to fix that after the fact, or does Slashdot dislike via mentions?

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