• Energid Technologies

Robotics Toolkit, Actin

Energid Technologies offers Actinâ„¢ Robotics Toolkit, an advanced software for controlling and simulating complex robotic mechanisms. Actin is a C++ software toolkit that simplifies robotic control applications by providing powerful software components and control methods for simulating and controlling complex mechanisms. Based on software developed for NASA, the Actin toolkit provides coordinated control for fixed or mobile robots with up to 100 independent moving parts and Windows-based libraries that robotics developers can use to quickly create complex, intelligent control systems. The developer specifies the robot kinematics and desired behaviour, and Actin produces algorithms for setting joint positions and rates to achieve specified hand motion. With Actin, roboticists are free to focus on what the robot does and where the hands and tools should be, not on how they get there. For mechanisms with many moving parts, tasks can be accomplished in an unlimited number of ways. The human arm, for example, can position and orient the hand while retaining freedom of motion in the elbow. Actin takes advantage of this kinematic redundancy to produce intelligent robotic motion, including collision avoidance, joint limit avoidance, minimum motion, and strength optimisation. Through a configurable object-oriented design, Actin applies to many robot types. It works with fixed-base manipulators, as would be typical for factory automation, and with mobile manipulators, as would be appropriate for home and entertainment. Actin works with almost any joint type or hand type and with a virtually unlimited number of degrees of freedom and branching connections.