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Computer Tools at the Automationand Robotics Section
The robotic section is equipped with state-of-the-art commercial Computer Tools to perform:
kinematic and dynamic simulation of robot systems (ROBCAD, IGRIP)
general Computer Aided Control System Design (MathCAD, MATLAB, 20Sim, SciLab)
Real-time control software development (VxWorks-Tornado, LynxOS, QNX, Linux-RTAI)
3D visualisation development (INVENTOR)
Computer Vision application development (TargetJR)
Video production (Adobe Premiere, FinalCut PRO)
Furthermore a series of tools were purpose-developed at ESA by Contractors for
remote control of robots (FAMOUS, DREAMS)
robot operations planning (TAPAS)
robot motion visual simulation (3DRM)
terramechanics performance simulation (RCET)
Last update: 18 September 2006
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