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Welcome to the PULSAR HRI Ecosystem Documentation!

Whether you're a researcher, developer, or engineer, the content on this website will help you get up and running with PULSAR products: PULSAR HRI develops best-in-class actuation systems and surrounding ecosystem, to enable next-generation robotics.

⚡ First Time Here?

If you really can't wait to get hands-on, just go straight to the Quickstart No-Code Guide to set up, power your actuator and get moving in minutes!

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🧭 Ecosystem Overview

At a glance, these are the main elements of the PULSAR HRI ecosystem:

High-level ecosystem diagram

  • REAL ACTUATORS which, once set up, offer the following hardware communication interfaces:
    • Direct USB connection
    • CAN communication

  • VIRTUAL ACTUATORS closely matching their Real counterparts behaviour. These Virtual Actuators can be set up thanks to:
    • 🚧 AUGUR Digital Twin, UNDER DEVELOPMENT - modeling the physics of the real actuator and running the exact same control algorithms

  • CONTROL INTERFACES of different kinds and for different needs, to control both Real and Virtual Actuators:
    • Desktop Application, no-code GUI for single actuator testing, for the easiest quickstart experience and to get familiar with PULSAR HRI actuators and their control
    • Python API, simple but powerful scripting to control multiple actuators for robotics prototypes and to leverage Python libraries such as for ML, AI applications
      • 🚧 ROS2 Python Node, UNDER DEVELOPMENT
    • 🚧 C++ API, UNDER DEVELOPMENT - to control multiple actuators in demanding applications with strict real-time requirements, where latency is a blocker
      • 🚧 ROS2 C++ Node, UNDER DEVELOPMENT

Note

A quick alignment on naming we use:

  • Motors = Direct-drive units without transmission
  • Actuators = Motors with integrated transmission

A question we often hear is:

"How are you different from the other actuator companies?"

Glad you asked: check out PULSAR HRI's website for answers!

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