Python Robotics

Python Robotics

Python Robotics (Pyro for short) is a project designed to create an easy-to-use interface for accessing and controlling a wide variety of real and simulated robots.

History

Pyrobot was funded from 2003 to 2005 by the National Science Foundation as NSF DUE CCLI-EMD Award number 0231363, "Beyond LEGOs: Hardware, Software, and Curriculum for the Next Generation Robot Laboratory". The principle investigators on the NSF grant were Douglas Blank of Bryn Mawr College, Kurt Konolige of SRI International, Deepak Kumar (computer scientist) of Bryn Mawr College, Lisa Meeden of Swarthmore College, and Holly Yanco of University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Pyro is a Python library with some C++ code for processing camera images. It has connections to Player, Stage, and Gazebo. It also contains its own simulator written completely in Python. It can directly control a variety of real robots, including the Pioneer, Khepera, Aibo, and Hemisson.

The ideas from Pyro continue to evolve as Myro, short for My Robot, in the Institute for Personal Robots in Education software, although it is no longer for Python only. Myro can be used by many other computer languages as well.

ee also

* Robotics

External links

* [http://pyrorobotics.org/ Python Robotics] - project home page
* [http://www.cs.brynmawr.edu/BeyondLegos/ Beyond LEGOs] - NSF funding page for Pyrobot


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