To develop and implement algorithms focused on the perception of the world for mobile robots, in order for them to navigate and execute tasks in an efficient way. See the media for a more visual description.

• 03/26/08 : There was a small bug in erf/Makefile.am involving a bad _SOURCES line. That was corrected in the fixed release in source forge.
• 03/26/08 : A page for troubleshooting the installation of ERF was added.
• 03/25/08 : New version of erf, pv3d and erfcv, the release version for all is 0.6 . What's new ?
  • a computer vision library that uses opencv, called erfcv.
  • new plugins.
  • other robotics middleware besides player can now be run with ERF.
  • the pv3d executable is no longer needed, erf is the one executable to run them all. A new plugin called player glob does the globbing ( replacing asterisk (*) based masks by the found player proxy and pv3d plugin).
  • lots of bugfixes and stability improvements.
• 03/25/2008 : Added some publications and videos.
• 03/25/2008 : A site exclusive for ERF developers is now available. Contact me for access.
• 06/13/07 : Stefan Stiene showed a glimpse of his work in robotic navigation algorithms, using pv3d to visualize the VFH algorithm working.

eXperimental robotics framework - Is a framework that formalizes and helps in the planning and conducting of experiments in rich interactive environments. In other words, a wizard for prototyping, visualization and interaction.

Computer Vision Components - Binds existing computer vision libraries under a single framework.

PlayerViewer3d - Enables the use of Player ( software for accessing distributed networks of robots ) to be used in ERF. Some common sensor visualizations and interfaces are already implemented.

Modules for intelligent autonomous robot navigation are perception modules implemented in the form of plugins for Playerviewerd3d. These include modules for feature detection(lines and arcs) and people detecting and tracking, all from laser data.

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