ROBOKIND v0.9.2 NOW AVAILABLE IN MAVEN

What does Robokind provide?

• Robokind provides low-level robotics control in three main areas: Motion, Vision, and Speech.
  • Motion
    • Move physical or virtual robots.
    • Network-enabled movement control.
    • Motion Blending for modular control, allows several components to simultaneously control a robot.
    • Control several robots at the same time.
  • Vision
    • Camera Capture and image messaging across Java and C++.
    • Distributed Vision System, designed to work across several processes.
    • Easy OpenCV Integration with Face Detection example.
  • Speech
    • Supports Microsoft SAPI on Windows.
    • Implementations for other platforms coming soon.
  • Sensor Integration Module coming soon!

• Robokind provides enterprise-level infrastructure to support complex robotics applications and long-term development.
  • Messaging
  • Modularity
  • Architecture for Maintainability and Extensibility
  • Cross-Platform Compatible
  • Language Independent Protocols - Implemented in Java with clients in C++, accessible in C#, C, Ruby, and Python via Avro and Qpid directly.

Robokind is built on top of several leading Open-Source projects.
Robokind uses:

• Apache Felix OSGi
• Apache Avro
• Apache Qpid
• OpenCV
• JFlux

Distributed image processing with Apache Avro and Apache Qpid - 2011-08-25

Robokind leverages more synergisms than you can shake a cornflower-blue stick at.

What more could you want?

The following features have been spun off into the RoboWorkshop project and are no longer part of RoboKind:

• User Interface
• Animation Editor
• 3D Simulator (Supplied by the CogChar project)

Robokind is intended only for low-level robotics control with no support for high-level planning and awareness.
The focus of Robokind is kept narrow in an effort to prevent bloat and unkept overgrowth in the project.
What is Robokind NOT:

• Robokind does not provide high-level planning or decision making.
• Robokind does not provide visual awareness or vision based decision making.
• Robokind does not provide language understanding.

These Cognitive Capabilities will be developed at Robokind's sister project, the CogChar Project.