TPAC meeting introduction, autonomous v

It was great to attend the Robots on the Web breakout session today - thanks for organizing this Debbie!

My university team's work on robot simulation is online at

 Autonomous Unmanned Vehicle (AUV) Workbench
 https://savage.nps.edu/AuvWorkbench

 https://savage.nps.edu/AuvWorkbench/NPSAuvWorkbenchFlyer.pdf
 
AUV Workbench supports physics-based modeling and visualization of autonomous vehicle behavior and sensors.  Our “3 R’s” are Rehearsal, Run-time control and Replay for air, surface and underwater robots.

This open-source tool is written in Java and demonstrates use of

 Autonomous Vehicle Command Language (AVCL)
 https://savage.nps.edu/Savage/AuvWorkbench/AVCL/AVCL.html

for XML-based cross-platform mission definition, command tasking, and telemetry recording.

We typically use the IEEE Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) protocol for networking, and the Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics standard for visualization.  Other protocols are possible for sharing robot state information, for examplee we have bundled DIS-XML within the XMPP chat protocol.

Example simulation mission products and analysis report for a UAV simulation can be found at

https://savage.nps.edu/AuvWorkbench/videos/UavWaypointMissionDemo1280x800.mov
https://savage.nps.edu/AuvWorkbench/MyAuvwProjects/DefaultProject/missions/UavWaypointMission.xml
https://savage.nps.edu/AuvWorkbench/MyAuvwProjects/DefaultProject/missions/UavWaypointMission.MissionMetadata.xml
https://savage.nps.edu/AuvWorkbench/MyAuvwProjects/DefaultProject/missions/UavWaypointMissionReport.pdf
https://savage.nps.edu/AuvWorkbench/MyAuvwProjects/DefaultProject/missions/UavWaypointMissionTelemetryPlacemarks.kml

I agree with the sentiments expressed by several people in the meeting that message exchange will be central to this group's endeavors.

Looking forward to further dialog.

all the best, Don
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Don Brutzman  Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br       brutzman@nps.edu
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X3D graphics, virtual worlds, navy robotics http://faculty.nps.edu/brutzman

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