A recently completed Industrial Ph.D. project done in cooperation between Prevas
and DTU, the Technical University of Denmark, enables advanced robot technology
to run on embedded systems.
For the last three years the research project has worked on improving the
potential for creating commercial products based on advanced robot technology
and thereby enables Prevas and DTU to help partners with turning research ideas
into real life products.
A recent trend in the academic communities all over the world is to cooperate by
using a common software framework named ROS, Robot Operating System. ROS
contains a large amount of advanced functionality for controlling robots
autonomously, e.g. vision algorithms, robot arm control and navigation of mobile
robots.
“Unfortunately ROS has primarily been designed for research where robustness and
performance is less important. We have developed a ROS compatible middleware
named DARC. DARC fulfills much better the industrial requirements that Prevas
and many other companies have and with this framework existing ROS functionality
can be executed much more efficiently on embedded systems. Furthermore DARC
makes it easier to utilize embedded technologies like DSPs, FPGAs etc. for
accelerating calculations and algorithms”, says Morten Kjaergaard from Prevas.
Morten Kjaergaard has recently defended his Ph.D. at DTU where he presented his
improvements to ROS and how they will help the industry to use more advanced
robot technology. After this the work continues at Prevas where the results of
the project will be used to offer customers services and products based on ROS,
DARC and embedded robot technology.
For more information contact:
Morten Kjærgaard, Software Developer, Prevas A/S
E-mail: morten.kjaergaard@prevas.dk, Mobil: +45 40 29 21 98
Peter Aagaard Kristensen, Engineering Manager, Prevas A/S
E-mail: peter.kristensen@prevas.dk, Mobil: +45 51 54 33 66
Henrik Møller, President, Prevas A/S
E-mail: henrik.moller@prevas.dk, Mobil: +45 29 49 92 02
About Prevas
With cutting edge expertise in embedded systems and industrial IT, Prevas
contributes by providing innovative solutions that create growth. Prevas was
founded in 1985, and the company is the main supplier and development partner to
leading companies in industries such as life science, telecommunications,
vehicle, defense, energy and engineering. Offices are located in Sweden,
Denmark, Norway and India. The company has approximately 600 employees. Prevas
has been listed on the NASDAQ OMX Nordic Exchange in Stockholm since 1998.
For more information, see www.prevas.com.
