SmartSoft

CORBA / SmartSoft

Components and Toolchain for Robotics

Latest News

20/03/2012

New video of SmartSoft MDSD Toolchain

27/02/2012

New video: The butler scenario.

06/10/2011

A new section demonstrates the creation and usage of Gateway components.

09/09/2011

SmartSoft MDSD Toolchain 0.10.4 released. Components update released. New Videos available.

05/05/2011

New video of our robot "Kate" cleaning up the table.

29/04/2011

The ACE based SmartSoft version 1.8.0 is available on Sourceforge. Technical reports available.

27/04/2011

Switch to Model Driven Software Development for all published SmartSoft components and communication objects. Many new components published. Getting-Startet-Tutorial added. Toolchain 0.10.2 released.

16/09/2010

Description of several components and their services added.

13/08/2010

The ACE based SmartSoft version 1.7.2 is available on Sourceforge. ACE / SmartSoft on Sourceforge

27/07/2010

SIMPAR 2010: Tutorial on "Model-Driven Software Development in Robotics"

26/05/2010

SmartSoft MDSD Toolchain version 0.8.0 released. SmartSoft VMWare on Sourceforge

09/09/2009

The new VMWare Image of SmartSoft including the SmartSoft MDSD Toolchain is available for download. SmartSoft VMWare on Sourceforge

SmartSoft VMware Image manual

While the SVN installation of SmartSoft requires an amount of time, the SmartSoft VMware-image is already set up correctly. The VMware-image provides an installed SmartSoft version with the necessary environment, based on Ubuntu LTS 10.04.2.

This provides an easy way to get familiar with SmartSoft, which normally depends on a real robot. This is achieved by using the integrated simulator (based on player/stage).

The ready to run SmartSoft VMware-image with integrated Player/Stage simulator is available under: SmartSoft VMWare-image

See also the tutorials (esp. Lesson 1) for instructions and details on how to use and start the VMware installation.

Hints

To run the SmartSoft VMware-image you need a recent version of VMware, the VMware-player for example.
The SmartSoft framework is installed in /home/smartsoft/SOFTWARE/smartsoft/ , the installation is an SVN checkout from the sourceforge repository. To get the latest version of SmartSoft use svn update.
```
      # cd $SMART_ROOT 
      # svn update
      # cd src
      # make distclean; make 
```
Within the vm the MARY Text-to-Speech System is set up, used by the speech output component providing speech output.
The vm includes an installation of player/stage, used by the SmartSoft simulator component.