UrbiDuino

Goal of this project is implementation URBI for Arduino (http://www.urbiforge.org/index.php/UrbiOpenSourceContestProjects/Noonv)

URBI and Arduino

URBI (Universal Real-time Behavior Interface) is an open source cross-platform software platform in C++ used to develop applications for robotics and complex systems. URBI is based on the UObject distributed C++ component architecture. URBI includes the urbiScript orchestration language which is a parallel and event-driven script language. UObject components can be plugged into urbiscript and appear as native objects that can be scripted to specify their interactions and data exchanges.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URBI'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URBI
http://gostai.com'>http://gostai.com
http://www.urbiforge.com'>http://www.urbiforge.com
http://robocraft.ru/blog/algorithm/288.html'>http://robocraft.ru/blog/algorithm/288.html (rus)

Arduino is a single-board microcontroller and a software suite for programming it. The hardware consists of a simple open hardware design for the controller with an Atmel AVR processor (mostly ATMega168 or ATMega328) and on-board I/O support. The software consists of a standard programming language and the boot loader that runs on the board.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino
http://arduino.cc'>http://arduino.cc
http://robocraft.ru/blog/arduino/14.html'>http://robocraft.ru/blog/arduino/14.html (rus)

UrbiDuino implementation

Arduinos are 8bit microcontrolers with no more than a few kilobytes of RAM (ATMega168 - 1Kb RAM).
URBI is too big to run on it. So URBI is not embeddable in the Arduino.

However, we could use Arduino boards controlled by urbiScript on URBI-server running on a PC connected to the Arduino via a USB/Serial interface (or wireless technology: XBee, Bluetooth).
http://robocraft.ru/blog/algorithm/290.html'>http://urbiduino.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/images/pc-usb-arduino-robot.png' />

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w4fnR9boiio' target='_blank'>http://img.youtube.com/vi/w4fnR9boiio/0.jpg' width='425' height=344 />

Usage

upload Arduino.dll and Arduino.u
run Arduino.u

=>var a = Arduino.new(19, 57600); // 19 - USB Serial of Arduino, 57600 - rate of StandardFirmata


#[0004240062] object_561


=> a.pinMode(13, OUTPUT); // set 13 pin led L as OUTPUT


=> a.digitalWrite(13,HIGH); // set pin HIGH


=> a.digitalWrite(13,LOW);

http://code.google.com/p/urbiduino/'>http://urbiduino.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/images/urbi-console.png' />

Lets URBI it!

Third place in Urbi Contest 2010! :)

http://www.urbiforge.org/index.php/Main/UrbiContest2010'>http://www.gostai.com/static/img/urbiforge/contest.jpg' />