BRICS in a nutshell
In the past, the process of developing a new robot application has had more of the design of a piece of artwork or of an act of ingenious engineering than of a structured and formalised process. The prime objective of BRICS is to structure and formalise the robot development process itself and to provide tools, models, and functional libraries, which allow reducing the development time by a magnitude.
BRICS will work together with academic as well as industrial providers of robotics �components� (hardware and software), to identify and document best practices in the development of complex robotics systems, to refactor (together) the existing components in order to achieve a much higher level of reusability and robustness, and to support the robot development process
with a structured tool chain and code repository.
BRICS is a joint research project funded by the European Commission ICT Challenge 2 under grant number 231940.