Introduction

AICA is committed to making robotics more accessible by providing smart software solutions for advanced robot control.

Robotics software has many layers and comprises many different parts. The following terms are used to distinguish between different parts of the AICA software stack.

AICA Core

AICA Core is a virtual robotics workspace pre-configured with a growing collection of software modules for motion generation, signal processing, machine learning and control algorithms. It includes hardware interfaces for real-time external control of popular robot brands, force-torque sensors and cameras. The workspace is the foundation and the software modules are the building blocks.

AICA applications

An application is a particular configuration of components, controllers and hardware interfaces from the AICA Core, generally designed to perform a particular task.

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AICA develops bespoke applications to solve specific automation challenges for clients, and offers more general smart applications built around a particular use-case (for example, mechanical assembly) that can be re-configured in only a few steps.

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AICA Studio

AICA Studio is the graphical user interface layer to AICA Core that empowers developers to build and extend their own advanced robotic applications. The interactive application editor can be used to dynamically edit, run and monitor robot behaviors. Monitor robot and sensor state data directly in the browser, and manage application states and events precisely through predicates, transitions, conditions, sequences or interactive buttons.

AICA System

The AICA System is the software ecosystem that extends AICA Core and Studio. While AICA Core comes bundled with the basics, AICA is continually developing additional collections of components, controllers or hardware interfaces that suit particular use-cases or types of robots. These first-party add-on packages are available to download from the AICA registry.

• AICA Launcher is a desktop app that can install and run AICA Studio with Core and add-on packages in just a few clicks
• AICA Studio: Cloud is an online-only version of the Studio experience to access and edit applications from anywhere
• The Component SDK allows developers to extend the base library with custom functionality that will work seamlessly alongside native components