What is MARIE? MARIE is a new design tool for mobile and
autonomous robot application, designed to facilitate the
integration of multiple heterogeneous software elements. It is a
flexible tool based on a distributed model, thus allowing the
realization of an application using one machine or various
networked machines, architectures and platforms. The robotics
field is evolving quickly : the diversity of technologies
available and the software solutions developed in the various
research centers throughout the world is in fact increasing the
complexity of integration. All these researchers and developers,
which worked to develop new solutions, see the reuse of their
work by other difficult or impossible. Too much often this
abandonment or negligence to use available components is due to
the inherent complexity of integrate different incompatible
softwares because conceived for various platforms, various
operating systems or protocols and conventions of communication.
--> Fast and simplified re-use of heteroclit