AsTeRICS - Assistive Technology Rapid Integration and Construction Set homepage: http://www.asterics.org
This project has been partly funded by the European Commission, Grant Agreement Number 247730 in the years 2010-2012. Since 2013, further development of AsTeRICS software and hardware components is hosted at: https://github.com/asterics/AsTeRICS
Since 2014, further development of AsTeRICS have been partly funded in course of the Prosperity4All project (http://www.prosperity4all.eu/) by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 610510
In case you would like to contribute to the repository, please send a request to: [email protected] or create pull request.
This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.
first public release; ACS, ARE and 85 plugins with demo models released to the open source community !
public release of the final AsTeRICS prototype; ACS, ARE and 125 plugins with demo models.
major GUI improvents and bug corrections
Midi-Plugin: Bug fixes/Improvements Mediaplayer-Plugin: added Ponggame-Plugin: added Skywatchermount-Plugin: added Peakdetector-Plugin: added Tonegenerator-Plugin: added EnOcean-Plugin: added fixed issue #3 and updated project and images for the 2.3 release added IMA CIM drivers added IMA CIM drivers added .hex and Makefile to Arduino CIM folder fixed issue #8 Speechprocessor-Plugin: improved error handling in case no speechprocessor is installed Updated help Proximitysensor-Plugin: added EOG-Plugin: added FS20Sender-Plugin: Fixed ARE-crash due to thread-synchronisation problems Fixed Issue #1, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10 Averager-Plugin: fixed bug Fixed ACS <-> ARE synchronisation issues added teensy RC CIM ARE: Improved Error handling MicGPI-Plugin: added
added Keycapture plugin fixed Issue #59 fixed Issue #54 fixed Issue #53 fixed Issue #52 fixed Issue #50 fixed Issue #49 fixed Issue #48 fixed Issue #42 fixed Issue #41 fixed Issue #39 and many more TimerPlugin: cured timing issues fixed Issue #21 added ReadEDF/WriteEDF, TeensyRCPrototype plugins fixed Issue #36 fixed Issue #24 improved Issue #30 improved start.bat file added better version handling to ARE and ACS added/adapted models for LipMouse plugin added java 8 support added Tooltips to all visible components in the ACS added search functionality for components in the ACS it is now possible to copy parts of a model to another one added lots of event listeners to plugins improved cellboard plugin fixed arduino plugin to enable the gpio functionality on pwm pins irtrans can now also be used as IR receiver events can now have a description the click range for input/output/event ports was increased the thread synchronizing in the ARE got improved OSKA now includes german word prediction added plugins for the eyeX and eyetribe low cost eye trackers added websocket support to the ARE
added/updated the following plugins LipMouse CellBoard (incl. CellBoardGUIEditor) EyeX Fabi FabiCronusMax EasyHomeControl EmulateFaultyPlugin XFaceTracker update Arduino: uniqueId WriteCSV ReadCSV StringSplitter KinectJ4K StringExpander plugin eShoe HRVAnalysis ECMAScriptInterpreter LineWriter Update Slider MicGPI EditBox CellBoard ButtonGrid EventRouter EventFlipFlop MediaPlayer Keyboard TextSender StringDispatcher LineReader StringDelay Delay RemoteWindow AREWindow
ARE now uses single threaded execution approach Basic support for Linux OS for ARE Introduced x-platform service for computervision (javacv and computervision) Introduced x-platform service for native mouse and keyboard hooks added global hotkeys for ARE Numerous bug fixes Numerous usability improvements for the ACS added support for RESTful API when started with --webservice
added/updated the following plugins LipMouse XFacetrackerLK UniversalRemoteControl p2_parser FABI IIRFilter bug fix local storage of slider value Server Sent Events for RESTful API start.bat, start_debug.bat, start.sh and start_debug.sh now all support autostart of commandline model and --webservice flag TuioReactivision MotionAnalysis ApplicationLauncher Skype
Basic ARE with cimcommunication and computer vision (based on JavaCV e.g. XFaceTrackerLK) should now run on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX Numerous bug fixes Numerous bug fixes/usability improvements for the ACS moved CIM/StandAloneModules/Fabi2 and CIM/StandAloneModules/LipMouse to seperate github repositories Fixed issue #85
Release with major changes under the hood regarding ARE licensing and customized packaging with APE: Licensing: Changed licenses of ARE, services and plugins to a dual license MIT or GPLv3 witch CLASSPATH exception. The individual licenses can be found in the bin/ARE/LICENSE folder
- Plugin development made easier:
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No no need for files bin/ARE/profile/loader.ini, bin/ARE/profile/loader_mini.ini and bin/ARE/profile/loader_componentlist.ini
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Improved loading of plugin osgi bundles and fixed exception handling
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Simplified fetching resources like data files utilizing newly introduced class ResourceRegistry: https://github.com/asterics/AsTeRICS/blob/master/ARE/middleware/src/main/java/eu/asterics/mw/services/ResourceRegistry.java
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moved log files to tmp subfolder
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Added webservice homepage to document root of ARE: data/webservice: including improved websocket demo and javascript REST API demo. Start ARE --webservice and open http://localhost:8081/
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Added Asterics Packaging Environment (APE) which let's you create customized and downstripped standalone packages (including native installer and launcher) for a given model file: https://github.com/asterics/AsTeRICS/tree/master/bin/APE
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Simplified Java Dependencies: Mixed installations of JREs, JDKs (32bit, 64bit, Java 7 or 8) are supported now. bin/ARE/findjava.bat searches for the best 32bit JRE found on the system. Execution with 64bit is allowed now, only warning is given
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Iprovement for development: All code is compiled for target level java 7, several JDKs can coexist.
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Improved build system: Added build file to AsTeRICS root directory.
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Added ARE REST API libraries for Java and javascript including example implementation: https://github.com/asterics/AsTeRICS/tree/master/ARE_RestAPIlibraries
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Removed dependency for external Visual Studio 2010 Redistributable installation: They .dlls are included in the bin/ARE folder
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Added official support for Mac OS X
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Added ARE installer for Linux and Mac OS X
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Models can send ARE to system tray including startup models --> Invisible for user
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ACS to ARE connectivity can be disabled, registering of UDP port is skipped in such a case --> no popup of firewall: see bin/ARE/areProperties
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ACS to ARE connection port can be configured, see bin/ARE/areProperties
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Improved ARE error messages at startup and improved exception handling for deploying and starting models.
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In case of just one model file, there is no need for autostart.acs model.
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Many, many bug fixes including Java8/Windows 10 support: https://github.com/asterics/AsTeRICS/milestone/4?closed=1
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New Plugins:
- RandomNumber
- GMailShortcuts: Emulate shortcuts to operate GMail Web client
- IntelRealSense: Intel Real Sense 3D camera support on Windows 8.1 64 bit machines.
- ComPort, SeriaPort: Generic serial port interfacing with support for binary and string data.
- OpenHAB: Interfacing a OpenHAB server: Controlling SmartHome attached to an OpenHAB server and reading sensor values from there
- StringFilter: Filter incoming string and decide and extract parts. Forward residual string to output port or trigger events: --> very useful in conjunction with CellBoard.
- HoverPanel: Single button that can be positioned anywhere on the screen, can be triggered by hovering (staying still on button, no mouse click): very useful for eye tracking.
- OpenBCI: Plugin for interfacing EEG devices which are compatible to the openBCI packet fromat
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Major Changes/Improvements in Plugins
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FS20Sender, FS20Receiver, EasyHomeControl: ported to all platforms (Win, Linux incl. Raspi, Mac OSX) using javahidapi
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KNX: Supported dynamic data points and provide compobox selection for datatypes. Also read values from datapoints
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enOcean: Improved, bug fixed lib
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WebSocket: Added Output Port: The plugin can now receive data through the websocket.
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CellBoard: Many improvements in CellBoard editor: Support for several levels for keyboard files and 'Back' action --> Only one model for AAC with submenus necessary.
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Timer: Bug fixes when starting/restarting
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javacv: Reorganized into platform specific bundles to get smaller packages; Removed ffmpeg lib in javacv--basic-.jar. Optionally a bigger javacv--full-.jar including ffmpeg can be created.
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JNativeHook service: Upgraded to version 2.0.3
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grizzly-http-service: upgraded to version 2.3.23
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- Activation of embedded webserver (including websocket and REST API) by default. No flag --webservice needed any more.
- Restructuring of folder structure in the ARE:
- Implementation of the new webserver document root specification: https://github.com/asterics/AsTeRICS/wiki/AsTeRICS-webserver-document-root-specification
- Integration of WebACS as webapp
- Integration of the new webbased help system for ARE and for WebACS
- The C# ACS now also uses the new help system instead of the windows only version.
- ARE startup automatically detectes plugin jar changes through MD5 hashes. If changes are detected new cache files and a new component collection is generated.
- XFacetrackerLK upgraded to JavaCV 1.3 and now works on all platforms (Linux, RPi, Mac, Windows) x86 and x64
- Improved x64 support for many plugins
- Improved AppplicationLauncher plugin to support crossplatform invocation of applications and URLs.
- Added shortcut and gui buttons to control panel of ARE to open webserver hp and currently deployed model in WebACS.
- Reworked ARE webpage.
- Improved many plugins.
- Reworked loading and storing model files to ensure UTF-8 encoding.
- Many plugin improvements.
- Made REST API ports configurable in areProperties.
- For further changes see the (Milestone 3.0)[https://github.com/asterics/AsTeRICS/milestone/5] and issues
- Download deployment model: wrong attribute modelVersion: #240
- Improved tracking quality of XFaceTrackerLK plugin, don't reinit tracker that often: #238
- Fixed ACS in case it is started with a file as parameter: #232
- ARE is not dependent on JRE 8 but JRE7 was embedded in installer: #241
see CHANGELOG