This chapter aggregates the definitions used in the this document.
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Bioloid
- The Robotis Bioloid is a hobbyist and educational robot kit produced by the Korean
robot manufacturer Robotis. The Bioloid platform consists of components and small,
modular servomechanisms called Dynamixels, which can be used in a daisy-chained fashion
to construct robots of various configurations, such as wheeled, legged, or humanoid robots.
The Bioloid system is thus comparable to the LEGO Mindstorms and VEXplorer kits.
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Gostai Console
- This tool provide a graphical user interface for Windows users to a remote
Urbi server (see Figure 26.1). Unix users, GNU/Linux or Mac OS X, can use the traditional
telnet tool. Windows users are invited to use Gostai Console instead. See Chapter 2.
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Gostai Lab
- This tool (see Figure 26.2), which includes the features of Gostai Console, allows to
build easily elaborate remote controller for robots. It provides various widgets to visualize
data from the robot (including video and sound), and to modify the state of the
robot.
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Gostai Studio
- This tool (see Figure 26.3), includes all the features of Gostai Console and Gostai
Lab. It is a high-level Integrated Development Environment for Urbi. Its formalism is based on
Hierarchical Finite State Machines.
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RMP
- The Segway Robotic Mobility Platform is a robotic platform based on the Segway Personal
Transporter. See http://rmp.segway.com.
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ROS
- Robot Operating System, developed by Willow Garage. It is an abstraction layer on top of the
genuine operating system (such as GNU/Linux) that provides hardware abstraction,
device control, common algorithms, message-passing between processes, and package
management.
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Spykee
- The Spykee is a WiFi-enabled robot built by Meccano (known as Erector in the United
States). It is equipped with a camera, speaker, microphone, and moves using two tracks. See
http://www.spykeeworld.com.
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urbi-console
- Former name of “Gostai Console”. See that item.
