Actin works with almost any joint type or hand type and with a
virtually unlimited number of degrees of freedom and branching connections.

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In addition, Actin includes the ability to dynamically simulate robots,
visually render the robots, express control systems using the Extensible
Markup Language (XML), create XML schemas describing the control-system
language, communicate control systems over a network, incorporate machine
vision, and implement force control.

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Through a configurable object-oriented design, Actin applies to many robot
types.

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Energid Technologies Releases Version 1 .0 of Its Actin(TM) Robotics Toolkit

The Actin toolkit provides libraries for the Windows platform that
robotics developers can use to quickly create complex, intelligent control
systems .
"With Actin, roboticists are free to focus on what the robot does," said
James English, Chief Technical Officer for Energid Technologies. The human arm, for example, can position and orient
the hand while retaining freedom of motion in the elbow. A
robot modeled on the human torso, for example , could have more than 50 degrees
of freedom and branch from the torso into two arms and ten fingers .

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For mechanisms with many moving parts, tasks can be accomplished in an
unlimited number of ways."

About Energid Technologies
Energid Technologies is an engineering firm focused on solving challenging
problems in robotics and machine vision.

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He was responsible for the management and direction of research and technology
endeavors in aerodynamics, aerothermodynamics, acoustics , structures,
materials and airborne systems in support of NASA's aeronautics, exploration
systems , science and space operations. From 1994 to 1997, he was the Instrument Systems
Engineer and later the Spacecraft Systems Manager for the Landsat 7 Project at
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt , Md. For more information, please visit
http://www.com.

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He developed advanced electronic systems for
several atmospheric remote sensing instruments and space data systems. In
1993, he was detailed to NASA Headquarters, where he managed the Tropical
Rainfall Measuring Mission. He led the design and
development of advanced and experimental flight electronics technologies and
systems, specializing in the application of microprocessor-based data
acquisition and signal processing electronics for space flight
instrumentation. Customers include commercial
robotics manufacturers, branches of the U.

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Based on software
developed for NASA, Actin provides coordinated control for fixed or mobile
robots with up to 100 independent moving parts. In
the past, this has prevented the application of many valuable mechanical
designs.

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Jurczyk was Langley's Director of the Research and Technology Directorate.
"Actin is more than just an easy-to-implement robotic controller," said
James Bacon, Principal Engineer with Energid Technologies, "it is a collection
of the many software tools needed to build, simulate, and demonstrate a
complete system.S.

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WASHINGTON, NASA announced today Stephen Jurczyk
is the new Deputy Center Director for the agency's Langley Research Center,
Hampton , Va. Robotics Company Releases Advanced Software for Control and Simulation

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Without Actin, a roboticist would need to first solve complex nonlinear
differential equations and implement the solution for real-time operation. Founded in 2001, its headquarters are in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.

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Jurczyk earned bachelor's and master's of science degrees in electrical
engineering from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. Actin takes
advantage of this kinematic redundancy to produce intelligent robotic motion,
including collision avoidance, joint limit avoidance, minimum motion, and
strength optimization.

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, Energid Technologies
Corporation today released its Actin(TM) toolkit, innovative software for
controlling and simulating complex robotic mechanisms. The developer specifies the robot kinematics and desired behavior,
and Actin produces algorithms for setting joint positions and rates to achieve
specified hand motion . It works with fixed-base manipulators, as would be typical for factory
automation, and with mobile manipulators, as would be appropriate for home
entertainment. It has regional presence in New York , New York; Dallas, Texas;
and Chicago, Illinois.

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He began his NASA career at Langley in 1988 as an electronics engineer in
the Electronic Systems Branch. "Where the
hands and tools should be, not on how they get there.

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In 1997, he returned to Langley as Head of the Electronic Systems Branch
in the Aerospace Electronics Systems Division.

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Actin can
also be used to control mechanisms with self-connecting loops.

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In 2002, he was selected as Deputy Director for Flight Systems in
Langley's Systems Engineering Competency, and in 2003, he was selected as the
Director of the Systems Engineering Competency.

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