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Future versions of AmigOS also may let expert users program their own standalone routines for
autonomous performance by AmigoBot.
AmigoBot Control Mode Software
Figure 3. Control AmigoBot from your PC
through AmigoLeash or AmigoWirefree
radio modems.
demo communicate with AmigoBot through a serial interface, either directly tethered via
AmigoLeash or wirelessly with the Serial Ethernet accessory or radio modems.
Currently available robotics software and development environments for the Microsoft Windows
or Red Hat© Linux-based computing platform of your choice include:
ActivMedia Robotics Interface for Applications (ARIA)
SRIsim ActivMedia robot simulator
SRI's Saphira client-development suite with Colbert
Versions and updates for supported computing
platforms are available to password-registered
customers for download from our software website:
http://robots.activmedia.com
ARIA
The ActivMedia Robotics Interface for Applications
(ARIA) is a C++-based open-source development
environment that provides a robust client-side
interface to a variety of intelligent robotics systems,
including your ActivMedia robot's controller and
accessory systems.
ARIA is the ideal platform for integration of your own
robot-control software, since it neatly handles the
lowest-level details of client-server interactions,
including serial communications, command and
Some software may come bundled with your robot. Other packages require purchase for licensing.
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also available for alternative operating systems, such as Macintosh, SunOS, Solaris, and BSD Unix.
We don't recommend that you learn H8S machine
language programming just yet. Rather, AmigoBot
prefers to operate by a higher intelligence (you, for
example) by teleoperating the robot with a joystick
from an ARIA program on your PC connected to
and in control of the robot.
Most people prefer to operate AmigoBot from their
PC because it gives them quick, easy access to the
robot's functionalities while working with high-level
software on a familiar host computer. Control Mode
employs the power and speed of your PC to perform
complex robotics tasks such as processing the raw
sensor and position information from the robot,
determining where it is in its operating space, and
safely guiding the robot from place to place, room
to room.
Control-mode software applications like the ARIA
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Figure 4. ARIA's architecture
Some software is
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