DAPHNE: A Development Environment for Autonomous Robotics Systems
Department
Computer Science
Major
Computer Science and Computer Engineering
Research Advisor
Thakur, Mayur
Xia, Frank
Advisor's Department
Computer Science
Abstract
Software for intelligent ground vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, and other autonomous robotics systems always shares some fundamental similarities by nature. The industry lacks a standardized way of reusing software across similar projects such as these. During development of robotics systems, much time is spent reinventing code and developing tools for testing each new hardware and software component. This paper introduces DAPHNE, a novel software framework designed to address this problem. The project comprises tools for developing, simulating, and controlling autonomous systems. The framework is currently in use by the UMR Robotics Team for developing software and testing hardware for various robotics projects.
Biography
Ryanne Dolan is a Computer Science and Computer Engineering student at the University of Missouri--Rolla. Ryanne is the Computing Group Leader for the UMR Robotics Competition Team. He works for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) researching natural language processing and computer vision. He works with Dr. Agarwal on the Learning Applied to Ground Robotics (LAGR) project and with Dr. Shrestha on a image processing research project. He is involved with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) senior design project and with a small team competing in the American Helicopter Association's (AHS) Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) First Responder Competition.
Research Category
Engineering
Presentation Type
Oral Presentation
Document Type
Presentation
Presentation Date
12 Apr 2006, 9:30 am
DAPHNE: A Development Environment for Autonomous Robotics Systems
Software for intelligent ground vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, and other autonomous robotics systems always shares some fundamental similarities by nature. The industry lacks a standardized way of reusing software across similar projects such as these. During development of robotics systems, much time is spent reinventing code and developing tools for testing each new hardware and software component. This paper introduces DAPHNE, a novel software framework designed to address this problem. The project comprises tools for developing, simulating, and controlling autonomous systems. The framework is currently in use by the UMR Robotics Team for developing software and testing hardware for various robotics projects.
