An automatic robot software design tool: An Open Platform for Robotics Services

Open Platform for Robotics Services (OPRoS) is a project funded by the South Korea government. Its first released results including executables and source codes with their document, are on its homepage. OPRoS is designed based on component modeling. It covers defined templates of the component, a framework that has component execution engines and several managers, GUI based editors, a simulator as tools for evaluation of robot tasks, and a server that has global repository function for OPRoS components and supports distributed component computation load. Real-time scheduling, multi-board performance, and integration with editors for different level of users are features currently under development. The open source codes are expected to reduce development loads and support fast robot software development.