JEOPARD Project Begins Validation of Parallel Real-time Java VM
Skysoft evaluates the development on multicore systems with SYSGO’s partitioning operating system PikeOS. The testing application consists of Java partitions in an aviation control system, that are executed parallel.
JamaicaVM, the proven JavaVM for hard and soft real-time applications, serves as the foundation…
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Tagged: Java, Jeopard, Real-time java, 7th framework program, Open group, Aicas gmbh, Parallel real-time java vm
DARPA Selects Barrett Technology and RE2 for ARM Research Program
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently announced a new initiative to create robotic autonomous manipulators that mimic human arms and hands. DARPA will use RE2, Inc. and Barrett Technology, Inc, to provide the program’s government furnished hardware, software, integration services, and manipulation expertise for this multi-year robotics research program. Both are leading U.S.-based manipulator companies with numerous years of expertise.
The Defense…
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Tagged: Re2, Darpa, Defense advanced research projects agency, Autonomous robotic manipulator research program, Barrett technology, Arm
Enabling Technologies and Design & Development Tools
Enabling Technologies
Although robotics technology in the various types of commercial, consumer and military robotics systems can differ radically from each other, their areas of commonality greatly outnumber their differences. That is, enabling technologies suitable for one particular class of products are appropriate and applicable for other types of intelligent, mobile robotics products as well. Sessions in the Enabling Technologies for Robotics Development Virtual Conference will cover the latest advances in the ‘core’ technology that are common to most classes of mobile robots and intelligent systems.
Representative…
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Teaching Your Car How To Drive
Drivers go to school to learn to anticipate emerging situations and respond appropriately. Why shouldn’t cars do the same?
That’s the question Florentin Wörgötter and his colleagues at the EU-funded research programme DRIVSCO asked themselves three years ago.
Their answer was that, with state-of-the-art…
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Tagged: Autonomy, Artificial intelligence, Drivsco, Automobile
Contineo Robotics Launched to Commercialize Advanced Robotics Technologies
A new technology venture has been formed to enhance the ability of military and homeland security robots to perform tasks that otherwise would place personnel in harm’s way. The former principal investigator for the $70 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 Program, along with colleagues from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and Orthocare Innovations, have formed Contineo Robotics.
Contineo (Latin for “grasp") is focused on applying advanced dexterous manipulation and control system technologies,…
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Tagged: Darpa, Contineo robotics, Mobile manipulation, Dexterous manipulation, Defense advanced research projects agency
Astrobotic Technology Announces Expanded Opportunities to Send Payloads to the Moon
“We will carry 240 pounds to the lunar surface for space agency technologists, academic researchers and marketers,” said David Gump, president of Astrobotic. The company previously had offered only 12 pounds of payload to third parties.
The company posted a technical description of the service on its Web site, along with a “Request for…
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Tagged: David gump, Astrobotic technology, Google lunar x prize, Celestis, Lunar x prize
Astrium and EADS Defense & Security to Study Integration of UAVs Into Civil Airspace
The European Defence Agency (EDA) has selected an Astrium and EADS Defence & Security (DS) consortium to lead a six-month study to demonstrate that by using satellite communications it is feasible to integrate UAVs into civil airspace. DS has more than 30 years of expertise in UAVs, and Astrium, Europe’s largest space company, will…
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Tagged: uav, uas, civilian airspace, civil airspace, eads, european defence agency, eads defense & security, eda
AeroVironment Receives $37.9 Million Raven UAS Order
AeroVironment, Inc. (AV) (NASDAQ:AVAV) announced that it received firm fixed-price orders valued at $20,731,992 for digital Raven unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and digital retrofit kits, and $17,141,648 for Raven system spare parts, repairs and training services for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps. The Raven system and retrofit order represents a portion of the $121 million appropriated for RQ-11 Raven system procurement in the 2010 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, which was…
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Tagged: Uas, Unmanned aerial system, Department of defense appropriations act, Raven, Aerovironment
FANUC Robotics Expands Certified Robot Training Program With M-1iA Robot
FANUC Robotics America, Inc. has added its M-1iA robot to the Certified Education Robot Training (CERT) program line-up. Launched in 2008, the CERT program certifies instructors at educational institutions to train their students to program FANUC robots through on-line and hands-on training courses.
The CERT program’s educational mobile lab includes an industrial robot, integrated vision system, programmable logic controller, and ROBOGUIDE simulation software. Schools may now select either an LR Mate 200iC or…
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Tagged: Fanuc, M-1ia robot, Cert, Certified education robot training
New Markets & Applications for Industrial Robotics
Beyond the Factory Floor: New Markets for Industrial Robotics
Fomerly, the technology of the time limited the industrial robotics segment to immobile, single task robots that had little interaction with humans or the world
around them as they performed their tasks in a manufacturing or factory floor automation role. Advancements in robotic and control technology now make it possible for industrial robots to expand into a wide range of non-manufacturing markets. These same advancements also allow industrial robots to expand their use beyond their traditional market sectors –…
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