Improvements in the Native Development Environment for Sony AIBO

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https://doi.org/10.9781/ijimai.2013.237

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Robotics, Software, AIBO, Aperios, URBI
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Thanks to other AIBO community members for sharing their AIBO tricks (AiboPet) and the valuable help in the maintenance of the robot dogs used in the project (WolfBob, Pablo). The advices from employees of Gostai company were also appreciated while porting the URBI 2 engine to AIBO.

Abstract

The entertainment robotics have been on a peak with AIBO, but this robot brand has been discontinued by the Sony in 2006 to help its financial position. Among other reasons, the robot failed to enter into both the mainstream and the robotics research labs besides the RoboCup competitions, however, there were some attempts to use the robot for rehabilitation and emotional medical treatments. A native software development environment (Open-R SDK) was provided to program AIBO, nevertheless, the operating system (Aperios) induced difficulties for the students and the researchers in the software development. The author of this paper made efforts to update the Open-R and overcome the problems. More enhancements have been implemented in the core components, some software methodologies were applied to solve a number of restrictions and the achievements are summarized here.

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2013-09-01
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How to Cite

Kertész, C. (2013). Improvements in the Native Development Environment for Sony AIBO. International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, 2(3), 50–54. https://doi.org/10.9781/ijimai.2013.237

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Vol. 2 No. 3 (2013): Special Issue on Improvements in Information Systems and Technologies.

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Regular Articles