Autonomous Vehicle Operating Envronment (AVOE)

Overview

AVOE is a minimalist robotics middleware suite for AUVs.

Features

• fast performance
• easy to understand C++ codebase
• logging
• networking
• minimal and highly modular

End Goal

Create a open source ROS alternative that is fast, minimal, highly modular, and flexible that can drive Tardigrade reliably in time for RoboSub 2026.

Documentation

Check out docs

Quick start

AVOE ships with reference code for our Tardigrade AUV. Check out docs/tardigrade.md. Following the instructions below will get you started.

Dependency List for Debian Based Systems

• gcc/g++
• make and cmake (for cmake build option)
• libc6-dev
• linux-headers

Building the Core Program

With CMake

mkdir build

cd build

cmake ..

make

Tip

you really only need to run the cmake .. once if you make changes to the code locally without moving any of the files you simply can just run make.

The executable should be titled avoe inside of the build folder that was created

With Bash

Building AVOE

cd core

./build.sh virtual

Building AVOE for debugging

./build.sh virtual_g

The executable should be titled avoe in the core folder

Building AVOE's reference CLI frontend (formerly deckbox-cli)

cd frontends/cli

./build.sh deckbox