Discover Fawkes

Fawkes is a component-based Software Framework for Robotic Real-Time Applications for various Platforms and Domains.

Developed and used over four years for cognitive robotics real-time applications like soccer and service robotics. It supports fast information exchange and efficient combination and coordination of different components to suit the needs of mobile robots operating in uncertain environments.

Please read the documentation how to start using and extending Fawkes.

The Fawkes Framework

Component-based Design

Fawkes employs a component-based approach for structuring and implementing the software and supports run-time loadable plugins to implement those.

Hybrid BlackBoard/Messaging Data Exchange

Information is shared within Fawkes by well-defined data groups via a blackboard. Commands are sent via messages. Support for event-based programming.

Multi-threaded and distributable

Fawkes has been optimized to exploit today's modern multi-core CPUs. It can be distributed running multiple instances on one or more machines.

Batteries included

Fawkes aims to provide the basic building blocks to get started quickly developing new robotic applications. An example is the Lua-based scripting environment to model behavior.

Used on various Platforms

Fawkes (or its components) has been used on a variety of platforms contributing to the success of several projects.

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Open Source, GPLv2+ with exceptions

Documentation

Teams that use Fawkes

AllemaniACs
RoboCup team at the Knowledge-based Systems Group at the RWTH Aachen University.
CMU Personal Robotics Lab
The Personal Robotics Lab at The Robotics Institute of the Carnegie Mellon University employs the Fawkes Behavior Engine ported to ROS.
Carologistics
Carologistics is a RoboCup team participating in the Logistics League sponsored by Festo.
ZaDeAt
ZaDeAt international RoboCup SPL team from University of Cape Town, South Africa, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and Graz Technical University, Austria.

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Blog

RoboCup Logistics Software Stack Release 2015

on Feb. 22, 2016 13:39

The Carologistics software stack of 2015 for the RoboCup Logistics League based on Fawkes has been released. The software comprises all parts necessary to play the game according to the rules of 2015 and includes the full simulation integration based on Gazebo. (read)

Carologistics Organize RoboCup Logistics League Winter School

on Dec. 15, 2015 14:00

The RCLL Winter School 2015 was a success with participants from all over the world. (read)

Bonding Hackathon 2015

on Nov. 3, 2015 12:00

Together with Bonding, Carologistics hosted the Bonding Hackathon for the third time in a row. 47 students split up in small teams and hacked through the night. They used Fawkes, the Lua-Based Behavior Engine and a Gazbeo simulation to solve a nuclear catastrophe scenario. (read)

World Champion in the RoboCup Logistics League 2015 in China

on Jul. 22, 2015 13:00

We won Robocup 2015 in the Logistics League with the Carologistics Team! Although there were many major and challenging changes of the league, we could defend our title as world champion. In the finals we won against Team Solidus with the score 56:26. We were able to explore the the new competition area by finding randomly placed machines. After the exploration, our robot team completed a successful production phase by operating the newly introduced Festo Modular Production System (MPS) to finish and deliver ordered products in time. (read)

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