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RobustHX - The Robust Middleware Library for Hexor Robots

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Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR 2010)

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This paper presents RobustHX - an extension of the Robust middleware library, which allows the six-legged Hexor robot to be programmed in Java. Like Lego Mindstorms NXT robots, Hexor has been adopted by many academic centers in Poland as a tool for teaching AI robotics. For this reason, the authors hope that RobustHX may also be found as an interesting teaching aid allowing basic robotic experiments to be carried out.

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  1. Institute of Automatics, AGH University of Science and Technology, Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Cracow, Poland

    Konrad Kułakowski & Piotr Matyasik

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  1. AIST Tsukuba Central 2, RT-Synthesis R.G., ISRI, AIST, 305-8568, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Noriaki Ando

  2. Intelligent Systems Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, M/S 8230, 20899-8230, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

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  3. Department of Computer Science, Technical University Darmstadt, Hochschulstr. 10, 64289, Darmstadt, Germany

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  4. Department of Management and Engineering (DTG), University of Padua, Stradella San Nicola, 3, 36100, Vicenza, Italy

    Monica Reggiani

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Kułakowski, K., Matyasik, P. (2010). RobustHX - The Robust Middleware Library for Hexor Robots. In: Ando, N., Balakirsky, S., Hemker, T., Reggiani, M., von Stryk, O. (eds) Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots. SIMPAR 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6472. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17319-6_24

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