Python Robotics (Pyro) is a project designed to create an easy-to-use interface for accessing and controlling a wide variety of real and simulated robots.

History

Pyrobot was funded from 2003 to 2005 by the

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National ...

as NSF DUE CCLI-EMD Award number 0231363, "Beyond LEGOs: Hardware, Software, and Curriculum for the Next Generation Robot Laboratory". The principal investigators on the NSF grant were

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Deepak Kumar (computer scientist) Deepak Kumar may refer to: * Deepak Kumar (historian) Deepak Kumar is a professor of History of Science and Education, at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Kumar has lectured at numerous universities within India and abroad, has ...

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, and

Holly Yanco Holly Ann Yanco is an American roboticist and computer scientist who works as Distinguished University Professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and the director of the New England Robotics Validation and Experiment ...

University of Massachusetts Lowell The University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell and UML) is a public research university in Lowell, Massachusetts, with a satellite campus in Haverhill, Massachusetts. It is the northernmost member of the University of Massachusetts public u ...

. PyroBot is a Python library with some C++ code for processing camera images. It has connections to

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, and Gazebo. It also contains its own simulator written completely in Python. It can directly control a variety of real robots, including the Pioneer,

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, and Hemisson. The ideas from PyroBot continue to evolve as Myro, short for My Robot, in the

Institute for Personal Robots in Education Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE) was initiated by a $1 million grant from Microsoft Research to Bryn Mawr College and the Georgia Institute of Technology and announced in July 2006. IPRE is designing introductory computer scienc ...

software, although it is no longer for Python only. Myro can be used by many other computer languages as well.

References

* * * * {{cite conference , last1=Blank , first1=D. S. , last2=Yanco , first2=H. , last3=Kumar , first3=D. , last4=Meeden , first4=L. , date=Spring 2004 , title=Avoiding the Karel-the-Robot Paradox: A Framework for Making Sophisticated Robotics Accessible , work=Accessible Hands-on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Education , conference=

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Spring Symposium , pages=48–51 , id=SS-04-01 , isbn=1-57735-193-2 , url=http://dangermouse.brynmawr.edu/~dblank/papers/aaaiss04-pyro.pdf

External links

Beyond LEGOs
- NSF funding page for Pyrobot Robotics suites Bryn Mawr College Python (programming language) libraries 2003 software 2003 in robotics SRI International software

History

See also

References

External links