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CLARAty Makes its First Beta Public Release
June 13, 2007
CLARAty completes its first public release of 44 modules that include functionality and infrastructure for robotic math and coordinate transformations, device and I/O, vision and mechanism models. This beta release is an adaptation of part of the private repository that is currently used to support a number of NASA research rovers developed under the Mars Technology Program. CLARAty plans to continue to make releases of all appropriate private modules in the near future. This release is accompanied with two tutorials.
CLARAty Featured in Open AFS Workshop
June 14, 2006
DJ Byrne of JPL featured CLARAty in his keynote presentation at the 2006 Open AFS workshop at the University of Michigan for its use of open source AFS as a tool for its multi-institution collaboration.
CLARAty Team Receives JPL Center Best One NASA Peer Award
April 19, 2006
Building on its prior award, the CLARAty team has been selected for the JPL Center Best One NASA Peer Award.
CLARAty Team Receives The One NASA Peer Award
March 9, 2006
CLARAty receives the One NASA Peer Award for its multi-institutional development team.
The CLARAty team receives a Team Bonus Award for the timely delivery and new developments in simulator integration, flight product capture, real-time control, and software products for validation
March 9, 2004
Mr. Max Bajracharya receives Level C Award for outstanding contribution to the CLARAty project
May 2, 2003
Dr. Issa A.D. Nesnas receives a Level B Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in developing CLARAty robotic software in collaboration with NASA Ames Research Center and Carnegie Mellon
April 20, 2003
The Mars Technology Program and the Mars Science Laboratory Program fund CLARAty to support formal deliverables of technologies and deployment of the JPL research rover fleet in support of the program's formal validation process for the next three years
February 10, 2001
The Mars Research Opportunity announces CLARAty to be used for the integration of robotic technologies that will be developed by awardees through this program. Awardees included investigators from NASA Ames Research Center, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, University of Michigan, and University of Washington.
February 13, 2003
Dr. Tara Estlin of JPL is appointed as CLARAty Deputy Manager. Ms. Anne Wright of NASA Ames Research Center and Mr. Max Bajracharya of JPL are appointed Cognizant Engineers for CLARAty.
July 30, 2001
Dr. Issa Nesnas appointed principal investigator for the CLARAty project taking over from Dr. Richard Volpe who has accepted a full-time position in the Mars Technology Program Office.
February 10, 2001
The Mars Research Opportunity announces CLARAty to be used for the integration of robotic technologies that will be developed by awardees through this program. Awardees included investigators from NASA Ames Research Center, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, University of Michigan, and University of Washington.
January - July, 2001
CLARAty establishes its multi-center collaboartion with the Carngie Mellon robotics team led by Prof. Reid Simmons and with the NASA Ames Research Center team led by Ms. Anne Wright.
CLARAty holds a peer review of the new architecture with participation from internal and external reviewers. Internal reviewers include technical leaders from robotics, flight software, Mission Data Systems (MDS) and Planning and Scheduling. External reviewers included robotic software leaders from NASA Ames Research Center, Carnegie Mellon, and NASA Johnston Space Center.
The Mars Technology Program initiates the CLARAty project (formally known as the Robotic Autonomy Architecture project) with Dr. Richard Volpe appointed as principal investigator. On the core team were: Dr. Issa Nesnas, Dr. Tara Estlin, Dr. Hari Das Nayar, Mr. Richard Petras, and Mr. Darren Mutz.
Dr. Samad Hayati, manager of the Mars Technology Program (MTP), initiates a preliminary study for unifying software architecture for MTP's robotic systems.