Zhiyuan's Robot Middleware AimRT Goes Open Source with Impressive Features

TapTechNews September 25th news, the robot middleware AimRT independently developed by Zhiyuan went online open source.

The official said that AimRT is a more modern, lightweight, easy-to-use, and efficient and stable communication development framework, with many practical features necessary for the robot development process, and solves some pain points of the mainstream open source middleware:

In terms of software development efficiency, AimRT is developed based on the new modern C++ standard, lightweight and easy to deploy, and applies modern design patterns in resource management, asynchronous programming, deployment configuration, etc., making the development of robot applications more quick and efficient.

In terms of toolchain and debugging efficiency, AimRT provides perfect debugging and performance analysis tools, as well as good observability support, which helps to quickly discover and solve problems in the system. Compared with the traditional communication framework, it can more strongly ensure the stable operation of the robot system.

In terms of ecological compatibility, AimRT can be compatible with traditional robot ecosystems such as ROS2, Http, Grpc, or cloud service ecosystems. Developers can choose the appropriate communication back-end according to needs and support the progressive upgrade of the existing system. It can be widely used in various deployment scenarios such as the robot side, edge side, and cloud side, and is more compatible with the latest AI technology.

In terms of expandability, AimRT provides comprehensive plug-in development interfaces and more than ten official plugs-ins, and also supports developers to conduct secondary development to adapt to more scenes.

The so-called "genius teenager" Zhihui Jun, who joined Huawei, announced his resignation at the end of 2022 and started the business of Zhiyuan Robot. On September 3 this year, Zhiyuan Robot completed the A++++++ round of financing, and its valuation has exceeded 7 billion yuan, and has received support from domestic auto giants including BAIC, SAIC, and BYD.

TapTechNews attaches the project open source address:

Official website link: https://aimrt.org/

Documentation link: https://docs.aimrt.org/index.html

Github link: https://github.com/AimRT/AimRT

Gitee link: https://gitee.com/robot-os/AimRT