ARCS Robot 'Brain' Jump-Starts Automation
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NH -- ActivMedia Robotics announced the first autonomous mobile robot
"brain" at O'Reilly's Emerging Technologies Conference in San Diego today.
ActivMedia Robotics Control System (ARCS) enables manufacturers to quickly
automate wheeled equipment and programmers to integrate self-guided robots
with security, communications, delivery and other building-automation
infrastructure.
With mobile robot sales expected to swell ten-fold during the next five
years, manufacturers of traditional wheeled equipment are eying the new
devices with a mixture of hope and trepidation. Even automated-guided
vehicle (AGV) manufacturers know little about sophisticated navigation
techniques used by so-called "intelligent" mobile robots. ARCS supplies this
"brain" technology so others need not re-invent the wheel.
Says Jeanne Dietsch, CEO of ActivMedia Robotics, "We've worked many years to
build a system that can reliably guide robots from place to place without
lines in the floor or beacons on the walls. Just as importantly, we've
developed tools so programmers can integrate those behaviors into
productivity-improving robotic applications."
While ActivMedia promotes its own surveillance robots, guides and delivery
bots, the company is not worried about encouraging competition by sharing
ARCS. "We want both OEM's and VAR's to apply ARCS in vertical and custom
markets. They know their customers far better than we ever could," says
Dietsch. "We want to focus on expanding and maintaining our code base to
make ARCS mobile robots ever more capable."
Like a brain, ARCS combines sensing, hardware, electronics and software.
With ARCS, mobile equipment manufacturers can connect their motor and power
controllers to drive indoor vehicles autonomously. Software includes
mapper, point-to-point navigation, patrol scheduling, wireless-networking
and end-user MobileEyes applications as well as underlying navigation
systems. ARCS' developer package for C++ software engineers adds the popular
ARIA API -- already in use by thousands of robot programmers -- and various
robot programming utilities.
The first third-party ARCS device is scheduled for completion in June, 2004.
About ActivMedia Robotics
ActivMedia Robotics, LLC is a global leader in design and manufacture of
intelligent mobile robots, sensing and controls. Leading international
organizations such as H-P, Intel, Honda, Pfizer, Sprint, and the US Navy
have chosen ActivMedia products. To learn more, please visit
http://www.MobileRobots.com.
ActivMedia Robotics' R&D, production and business offices are in Amherst,
NH.
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