The Robotics Demonstration and Test team, in the NASA Goddard Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office, used the Orocos ecosystem to control a Motoman SIA10D industrial robot to demonstrate autonomous visual tracking of both cooperative, and uncooperative, targets in microgravity. NASA robot visually tracking a free-floating, non-cooperative target

While the project is still in the (heavy?) turmoil of the 1.x-to-2.x transition, it might be useful to start thinking about the next version, 3.x. Below are a number of developments and policies that could eventually become 3.x; please, use the project's (user and developer) mailinglists to give your opinions, using a 3.x Roadmap message tag.

Disclaimer: there is nothing official yet about any of the below-mentioned suggestions; on the contrary, they are currently just the reflections of one single person, Herman Bruyninckx. Click below to read the rest of this post.

Outlines how to use CORBA to distribute applications. Differs by CORBA implementation and whether you are using DNS names or IP addresses. Click below to read the rest of this post.