Autonomous machines and self-driving cars receive a lot of media attention and the buzz around the topic is big. The terminology is not always very clear – what is the difference between a robot and an autonomous machine – or…
The role of software in industrial environments is constantly growing: there is more software, they’re more complex and more dependent on each other. They are often responsible for remarkable or even dangerous machinery. However, on the basis of my diploma…
This post is based on my master’s thesis, in which the goal was to implement a genetic algorithm for beacon placement design. Genetic algorithms are not a new concept, and neither is locating objects based on distance measurements. But the…
This post is based on my M.Sc. thesis, the goal of which was redesigning the velocity profile generator of an autonomous mobile robot. The velocity profile can be used to plan and optimize a robot’s movement. What is a velocity…
Rust is a young programming language; not brand-new, but not old or rusty by any means. Rust was first introduced at Mozilla in the 2010s, and it proved its worth at the core of Firefox. The parts written in Rust…
Atostek adopted a more systematic approach to quality in late 2017, when we began documenting and supplementing our quality system with a view to earning the ISO 9001 certificate. However, this was insufficient, so late 2019 we began a new…
Companies around the world are spending huge amounts of money on robotics development. Autonomous cars, industrial robots, autonomous lawn mowers and work machines all are some kind of robots. Almost daily there are news about new R & D efforts…
I have been an expert in the world of digital imaging for more than ten years. In the recent past, I have sat in on several sales and other meetings explaining DICOM and what exactly it is used for. DICOM…
Judy Faulkner, the founder and CEO of Epic recently presented Apotti as an example of a groundbreaking achievement in handling health and social care data. She claimed that Apotti is the first in the world to integrate both health and…
