Projects

Marathon Robotics designs and builds robotic target systems. The distributed multi-robot architecture is based entirely on Orca. Located in Sydney, Australia.

The Center for Collaborative Control of Unmanned Vehicles (C3UV) at the University of California, Berkeley applies task allocation and data fusion research to a multi-UAV system. Orca is used for all UAV-to-UAV and UAV-to-ground communications.

The Cornell University Autonomous Systems Lab focuses on estimation and control for a variety of applications in the general area of autonomous/semi-autonomous robotic systems.

Several projects related to Automotive Systems at the University of Technology Sydney (Australia).

Chicago Engineering Design Team (EDT) is an engineering and robotics organization made up of UIC engineering students. The team participates in everything from robotics competitions to organizing engineering events for high schools.

IWARD is a robot swarm project funded by the European Union. FATRONIK (Spain) is building a communication infrastructure based on Orca.

Master's thesis on robotic sensor calibration at the University of Sydney (Australia). Uses Orca for data logging, playback, and visualization.

University of Florida (USA).

Student UAV project at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia).

Joint Berkeley/Sydney team competed in the 2007 Darpa Urban Grand Challenge. The entire multi-host architecture was based on Orca.

PhD thesis Probabilistic Human-Robot Information Fusion at the University of Sydney (Australia). Used Orca for user studies with simulated robotic hardware as well as experimental validations.

PhD thesis Parametric POMDPs for planning in continuous state spaces at the University of Sydney (Australia). Used Orca for all simulation and experimental validation.

Robocup Rescue team at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). Used Orca for flexible data transfer.

Industry-funded ANSER II project at ACFR (Sydney, Australia). The project demonstrated Decentralised Data Fusion between a ground vehicle, an unmanned air vehicle (UAV), and two human operators. Used Orca-1 with custom UDP-based protocol for all fusion-related communication.