This is the main documentation of the igus Humanoid Open Platform ROS software release. Further documentation for the other components of the release can be found in the other root folders in the src directory. First-time users, please have a look at the Installation Guide.

A good starting point is the Packages and Modules page, and the Launch Files page.

This software package is provided open source under the BSD-3 license, and it is encouraged for users of the framework to publish any fixes, modifications and/or additions to the framework, and notify the original authors (e.g. email) at the Autonomous Intelligent Systems Group at the University of Bonn.

The igus Humanoid Open Platform ROS soccer package is detailed in the following paper:

P. Allgeuer, H. Farazi, M. Schreiber, and S. Behnke, "Child-sized 3D Printed igus Humanoid Open Platform," in Proceedings of the 15th IEEE-RAS Int. Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Seoul, Korea, 2015.

We ask you to cite this paper if you use this framework on your robot or for academic work.

@Conference{Allgeuer2015,
Title                    = {{Child-sized 3D Printed igus Humanoid Open Platform}},
Author                   = {Philipp Allgeuer and Hafez Farazi and Michael Schreiber and Sven Behnke},
Booktitle                = {Proceedings of 15th IEEE-RAS Int. Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)},
Year                     = {2015},
Address                  = {Seoul, Korea}
}

The corresponding release of hardware files for the igus Humanoid Open Platform can be found here.

Links

For more information, please refer to the following webpages:

igus Humanoid Open Platform: http://nimbro.net/OP
Autonomous Intelligent Systems: http://ais.uni-bonn.de