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 COMPANY
OVERVIEW
Advanced Cybernetics
Group was founded in 1992 to develop high performance embedded software for
mission critical applications. Based on our superior technology, ACG
has successfully bid and been awarded
contracts by both the US Air Force and the National Institute of Standards and
Technology to develop software for mission critical systems operating
in dynamic environments.
ACG has applied and extended adaptive control systems technology developed for military applications to OEM solutions and products for IBM, Ingersoll-Rand, Adept, Seagate and Motorola and others. Our primary source of revenue is OEM licensing of control system software and solutions built using our own real time operating system. We also provide consulting services in embedded control systems technology. ACG is a minority owned company and an approved US Department of Defense contractor. MANAGEMENT Francis
daCosta, Founder and CTO Biography
TECHNOLOGY
PORTFOLIO 1992-2004
Real Time Embedded Control. Advanced Cybernetics Group was founded to provide sensor guided "smart" control systems for autonomous robots operating in mission critical situations where failure is not an option. ACG later commercialized technology developed for the USAF and NIST by developing specialized adaptive robotic solutions for non military applications: real time vision based tracking of moving targets, force sensor guided robot motion for precision assembly tasks, laser guided path modification for weld seam tracking. Rapid Development Environments. ACG developed automated code generation tools for the US Air Force and their need for rapid programming of robots for small batch situations [Technical Paper]. The work in automated programming has been extended to embedded software development environments [Adept] and robot motion visualization tools [Tele-robotics]. Soft Chips: stack-less executables. Burgeoning customer interest in low cost, low power embedded control of un-tethered devices has motivated our internal development of compact control software. An OS-less approach to software development runs efficiently on low cost power constrained wireless devices. Benefits: can now use lower cost, 8 bit or 16 bit processors, less RAM, lower leakage currents from less support hardware. Our soft chip technology, featured in EETIMES addresses burgeoning low cost software development needs. We are currently extending soft chips technology for automated code generation of "hard" and "soft" components of high performance embedded systems. [Features and Benefits] Automated Java to C conversion. Our soft chips technology analyzes the Java program after it is compiled to a specific target processor. The analysis is thus operating on the Java Byte code - no access to the Java source code is needed. The byte code equivalent of the Java code is then converted to monolithic C code- generated with identified essential OS system services fused with it. See Java to C Conversion. |
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