User's Stories
Learn more about the companies and organizations using OpenJAUS in their projects!
Many great companies and organizations are using OpenJAUS in their projects. Presented here are a few of their stories, in their own words, about how they used OpenJAUS and how OpenJAUS has benefited their projects. If you have an exciting project or program using OpenJAUS, let the developers know and they'll be in contact with you to add your story to this collection!
Current User Stories:
Mountaintop Technologies' AGNAS Program
University of Wisconsin - Madison
University of Florida's CIMAR Laboratory
Mountain Top Technologies
MTT saves "several thousand man-hours" using OpenJAUS!
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Mountain Top Technologies is using OpenJAUS to enhance the capabilities and speed the development of their AGNAS project. Luke Roseberry from MTT had this to say about OpenJAUS' role in the project:
MountainTop Technologies, Inc. (MTT), historically an e-learning software development company, is fostering the continued growth and success of its new Robotic Systems Group located at the located at the John P. Murtha/Cambria County Municipal Airport in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The group’s current undertaking includes the development of a very unique robotic vehicle that is key to the Aviation Ground Navigation System (AGNAS) Program funded by the Office of Naval Research. The AGNAS proof of concept is focused on an “Airport of the Future” scenario. For example, automation of airport ground vehicle movement that provides enhanced safety, security, and aircraft fuel savings with hopes of someday applying equally as well to aircraft carrier operations. Refer to www.agnas.org for additional information.
A significant challenge for MTT’s robotic team was to overcome the incompatibilities of different computer architectures while developing a seamless cross platform application (i.e. 32-Bit PC104 vehicle processor verses 64-Bit dual core server based GUI/OCU). With the help from the OpenJAUS working group and acceptance of their OpenJAUS code baseline, the team managed the incompatibility hurdle in addition to a significant jump-start with JAUS compliant software components. The OpenJAUS baseline with some customization will support the ongoing development of the AGNAS application as well as other Government or commercial robotic applications. It is estimated that several thousand man-hours were saved by the implementation of the OpenJAUS baseline verses MTT developing its own software component messaging system.
More information about MTT and the AGNAS project >>
University of Wisconsin - Madison
UW-Madison's IEEE Robot team uses OpenJAUS for their IGVC teams!
ReWIRED - IGVC Robot from UW-Madison
The Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) is a student competition sponsored every year by AUVSI. In the IGVC, student teams are required to design & build a small UGV which competes in a variety of competitions including a design competition, a navigation course and an obstacle course. There is also a JAUS-based competition that requires the teams implement part of their system using JAUS messages. While many teams at the 2008 IGVC used OpenJAUS, the team from UW-Madison participated in the OpenJAUS 3.3.0 beta and used the newest code base on their project. Here is what Zac Witte, the lead of their software development team, had to say about his experience with OpenJAUS and the IGVC:
I appreciate the help you guys have been and using OJ definitely made rapid development easier. Once I got the hang of things it didn't take too long to write a system that actually surpassed the requirements of the highest level JAUS challenge at the IGVC.
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More information about the UW-Madison team >>
University of Florida
UF's Center for Intelligent Machines and Robotics uses OpenJAUS for DARPA Urban Challenge!
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OpenJAUS started at the University of Florida's Center for Intelligent Machines and Robotics' (CIMAR) graduate research lab in 2005 for the DARPA Grand Challenge. In 2007, CIMAR again participated in the DARPA Urban Challenge, this time using a customized version of the OpenJAUS 1.0 codebase.
Since then, CIMAR has been working closely with the OpenJAUS development community in developing OpenJAUS 3.3.0 and updating their system to use the newest OpenJAUS code. Greg Garcia from CIMAR presented his experiences using OpenJAUS at the Developer's Conference in July 2008. Slides from his presentation are below.
