The Experimental Robotics Framework is a framework for developing composable applications. The idea is to develop software components that interact with others previously developed in other applications and other components developed by other researchers. It is not a new concept in the field, it is very similar to IBM eclipse but in this case for 3d applications and based on C++ instead of Java.

Currently it depends on http://opengl.org OpenGL and the http://fltk.org Fast Light Toolkit 2.0 (FLTK).

• Two camera views: perpective and orthogonal.
• Principle of code reusability.
• Support for video/webcams.
• loading 3D OBJ meshes.
• plugin based architecture.
• interaction with the 3d world made simple.
• xml parsers and configuration classes.
• support for drawing to multiple windows.
• capture of video and snapshots.
• uses reference counting for a frugal and safe memory management.
• provides http://opengl.org objects like grids and targets that are often used.
• use GLSL do prototype shaders.
• design inspired by Objective-C, so that is possible to communicate messages between components using Xml, the serialization of objects and lazy initialization of components.

Screenshots

capture_do_teste.png	layout.png	multi_robot_speech_recognition_1.png
multi_robot_speech_recognition_2.png	multi_robot_speech_recognition_3.png	multi_robot_speech_recognition_4.png
multi_robot_speech_recognition_5.png	pv3d_camera.png	pv3d_hospital_nomad_and_robchair4.png
pv3d_laser_model_and_menus2.png	pv3d_scene_interpretation.png	pv3d_scene_interpretation4.png
pv3d_scene_interpretation4_top_view.png	pv_multirobot4.png	pv_reconstruction2.png
pv_reconstruction3.png