Welcome to the Robotics community

// CommunityOne and JavaOne Activities - This Week!

Robots are coming to JavaOne 2008!

Come contribute to the RoboHACC collaborative coding challenge in the java.net community corner in the JavaOne pavilion. Start your solution in the Greenfoot simulator - all you need is a Java-capable PC. Then, at JavaOne, direct one or more Sun SPOT - equipped TrackBots through a maze and help create the best solution to the problem.

Also check out BOF-6620: Robot Fusion: Mobile Robots and Sun™ SPOTs Collaborate to Hunt Humans, and TS-5925 A City-Driving Robotic Car Named Tommy Jr. There is a presentation on robots in the CommunityOne Day May 5 at 16:00, Session S297127. Throughout the week there will be mini-talks, demos, and other activities in the Robotics area of the Java.net Community Corner in the exhibit pavilion.

// Mobile & Embedded Developer Days Wrapup

Here's a page with links to videos, blogs, photos, slideware and more from the MEDD conference in Jan

// Code Commits of Note

2008 Mar 05: The TrackBotCode is greatly improved. The TrackBot Greenfoot simulator now includes three different maze generators (in the MazeWorld class).

TrackBot demo code in the TrackBotCode incubator project. This includes demo code shown at the the Jan 2008 MEDD conference. There is also a commit in the SunSPOT-trackbot project area - the code from the JavaOne HOL 7230.

SunSPOT projects are committed in the SunSPOT Robotics subproject incubator area. There are also some SPOT projects in the main incubator.

Etching - as seen at JavaOne 2007
This program takes an image and turns it into a vector list for an outline drawing. It was originally used to drive the ABB robot demo at JavaOne 2007. This IRB 340 robot is the fastest in its class with 10G acceleration and 150 pick cycles per minute. It is used for tasks such as sorting croissants and muffins as in this video. Here is a photo.

leRCoS - LEGO Remote Control System
eRCoS is the result of a thesis project. It is working fine on RCX and I'd like to extend it for the NTX brick in order to take advance of Bluetooth communication system!

Jvex-Robotics
JVEX-robotics is a project to interface the VEX Robotics System controller to Java single board computers. The goal is to free the Java host from low level device management responsibilities by delegating these tasks to the VEX hardware. The result is that Java can easily be used with the VEX kit, which is a great prototyping environment. Featured in BOF-0509 at JavaOne 2006 SFO.

Robotics Application Framework
RSCL provides a framework to develop applications to simulate and control a mobile robot. It has been used successfully with vastly different medium sized (~150 lb) autonomous ground vehicles.