BORG Assimilation Hit List

Here are some amazing software projects which warrant being assimilated into MRL !  RESISTANCE IS FUTILE !  

Please add your favorite open source Java project to the list as a comment !

Who's up next ?

JHLabs - visual BufferedImage filters - http://www.jhlabs.com/ip/filters/index.html

SLAM

• https://github.com/simondlevy/BreezySLAM
• http://www.oursland.net/projects/fastslam/

Physics & Kinetics

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_(software)  
  demo - of most interest is the Generic Joint Demo http://jbullet.advel.cz/applet 
  I'm interested in find a Kinematics library - this one is more a Physics package, although kinematics would be a subset.   Definately looks great 
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12927654/jbullet-example
• LIBGDX is the definitive game framework. wrapper of OpenGL ES and also has a Bullet wrapper.
• Java Open Kinematic Chains Library
• JavaFX Library for Inverse Kinematics 2.0 - graphics only - no data back
  http://java.dzone.com/articles/javafx-library-inverse
• Stanford Natural Language Parser
• AI-MA
• http://hejp.co.uk/flash/inverse-kinematics-part-2-of-2/ excellent explanation of kinematics
• http://digilander.libero.it/carmine.lia/jroboop/ Robot Kinematics Library

AI

• https://www.tensorflow.org/
• https://www.captionbot.ai/ 
• http://deeplearning4j.org/
• Subsumption Architecture

Competitions

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_competition
• http://www.robocupathome.org/

Q-Learging

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNL5-0_T1D0
• http://kunuk.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/q-learning/
• http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9417ml/RL1/sourcecode.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-learning
• https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~poole/demos/rl/q.html (online demo)
• http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9417ml/RL1/applet.html (cat mouse - online demo)
• http://thierry.masson.free.fr/IA/en/qlearning_about.htm (draw in good and bad tiles)
• http://somesaba.github.io/posts/robot-foosball-part-3--artificial-intell... (FOOSBALL!)

raver1975: so the next time the robot is in a similar state, it will know what the best action

is

GroG: like subsumption architecture with memory

raver1975: the robot is in a state, and there is a list of actions the robot can take while in that state. The robot leanrs through trial and error, which actions are the best to take when it is in a certain state

raver1975: but if it is holding a small child, and it takes the "eat" action, the robot is rewarded

raver1975: the grids don't have to be robot positions, they are robot "states", and the 4 directions are the 4 "actions" the robot can take in each state. so if the robot is holding poison, and it takes the action "eat", it is bad.

• VideoStreaming - http://www.bogotobogo.com/VideoStreaming/videostreaming_etc.php
• https://github.com/teradeep/demo-apps Teradeep visual recognition 

3D Representations

• 3D Scene Graph Libraries - Java3D JMonkey JReality LWJGL Ardor3D http://jogamp.org/jogl/www/
  JOGL is pretty awesome
• http://threejs.org/docs/index.html#Manual/Introduction/Creating_a_scene
• http://robotwebtools.org/ - Javascript library from ROS 
• ROS PointCloud from streaming Kinect
• MeshLab
• http://bostondynamics.com/bd_diguy.html

Looking for a 3D simulator + physics engine for WebGL - this one I think combines the bullet engine with its own framework more research needed - http://cjcliffe.github.io/CubicVR.js/cubicvr/samples/vehicle_physics_demo/stunt_track1.html

more about it - http://www.cubicvr.org/45-news/webgl/82-cubicvr-js-vehicle-physics-demo

Review of different WebGL js frameworks - http://weblog.benjaminsommer.com/blog/2012/05/13/comparison-of-webgl-framework-apis/

GUI 2.0 for MRL needs to be based on HTML 5, WebGL & WebSockets !
Above is an amazing demonstration of what can be done with WebGL (http://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/)

Here is a kinect point cloud display demo - http://www.mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/webgl/kinect/

These and many more demos are @ http://www.chromeexperiments.com/

Point Cloud Library PCL - http://pointclouds.org

WebGUI over Smart Phones

The new gui will be web based allowing it to work on any phone, tablet, or computer.  MRL's GUI system is already client / server based - so it will fairly straight forward to make the existing architecture work with a new web base gui view.

To mitigate the differences between different mobile operating systems - phonegap or similar framework will probably be used.

• AngularJS - http://www.angularjs.org/
• "Think in AngularJS"
• Angualar IDE - http://angular-ui.github.io/
• http://briantford.com/blog/angular-phonegap.html
• JQuery 
• gwt-mobile video - http://www.devoxx.com/display/DV12/mgwt+-+GWT+goes+mobile
• start here - phone gap - http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.5.0/guide_getting-started_ios_index.md.html
• Hello world phone gap
• http://jquerymobile.com/
• http://nodejs.org/
• https://code.google.com/p/gwtmobile/
• mgwt phonegap+mgwt plugin
• phone gap + websockets - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14482954/websockets-or-an-alternative-with-phonegap
• phone gap + websockets - http://remysharp.com/2010/10/04/websockets-in-phonegap-projects/

Distributed Computing

• http://nodejs.org/
• https://npmjs.org/
• Node.js
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-nodejs/ NodeJS for Java

Interface Related

• NodeJS Robotics http://cylonjs.com/documentation/getting-started/

Video or OpenGL related

• WebGL - definately in MRL's future - http://www.chromeexperiments.com/webgl/
• JOGLE - https://jogamp.org/jogl/www/
• OculusOverlay
• VideoPal
• http://slick.ninjacave.com/ Slick2D
• http://lwjgl.org/ Light Weight Java Game Library
• http://twl.l33tlabs.org/ Themable Widget Library
• http://nifty-gui.lessvoid.com/ - OpenGL GUI Library
• JBox2d (A Java Physics Engine)
• Artemis (Entity System Framework)

SIMULATORS

• List of Simulators
• Blender
• Simbad
• Morse

KINECT

• Context aware diaolog with kinect
• Listening with Kinect
• Drawing Depth with Kinect

OCR

• http://www.textspotter.org/

Speech Recognition (Speech to Text)

• JARVIS - https://github.com/lkuza2/java-speech-api
• Julius
• eSpeak - make Java Wrapper on RasPI
• http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/1471001/Processing-Speec...
• JSAPI Wrapper in CogChar
• PocketSphinx - runs on RasPi !
• Jasper

Speech Synthesis (Text to Speech)

• http://www.fromtexttospeech.com/
• http://tts-api.com/  - looks awesome !
• http://www.voicerss.org/
• http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/
• http://www.cepstral.com/en/demos
• http://www.readspeaker.com/voice-demo/
• http://www.sitepal.com/ttswidgetdemo/
• http://www.ispeech.org/text.to.speech
• http://www.voiceforge.com/demo#
• http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/onlinedemo.html Festival can be done locally
• http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/download.html

RXTX Replacement

• PureJavaComm
• JavaComm
• NRJavaSerial
• JSSC
• sockets over Linux - http://www.rfc1149.net/blog/2011/12/01/accessing-serial-ports-the-easy-way/

Genetic Programming

• http://jgap.sourceforge.net/
• http://boxcar2d.com/

Wavefront Algorithm

• http://www.societyofrobots.com/programming_wavefront.shtml

TLD+

• http://jayrambhia.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/tracking-in-opentld-aka-predator/

Security

• http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E21455_01/common/tutorials/general_wspolicy_policy.html

Others

• http://jscience.org/
• Javolution - http://javolution.org/ "real time"
• http://www.tekkotsu.org/downloads.html Tekkostsu - a framework with probably a lot of interesting stuff - the challenge though is it is all written in C++ so it would need a JNA/JNI adapters - nice robots - http://chiara-robot.org/Calliope/  & http://chiara-robot.org/HandEye/
• http://geeknizer.com/diy-build-google-glass/

Point Cloud Reconstruction 

• http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~snavely/bundler/
• http://www.di.ens.fr/pmvs/      
• http://www.di.ens.fr/cmvs/ 

RasPi

• Great RasPi Android interface

• http://letsmakerobots.com/node/35363
• raspi has own i2c port - kernel has driver - which kernel
• soo want an very low profile headless I2C restful interface !!!

• http://www.computer-vision-software.com/blog/2009/05/tracking-overlappin...
• http://www.rhondasoftware.com/ wow - the Intel russian group?
• google overlap opencv

Ring Buffer

• https://code.google.com/p/dataturbine/

OpenCV

• JavaCV Other Resources

USB over IP

• http://usbip.sourceforge.net/#screenshots

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support_vector_machine SVM ?

• http://www.techthefuture.com/technology/rapyuta-a-collective-brain-for-r...
• http://www.roboearth.org/software-components#object_models

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcsN3d7eKgY
• Minecraft API ? http://www.techthefuture.com/technology/the-internet-of-things-robots-rfid-co-operation/