General Description

PACPUS is a research platform of the Heudiasyc JRU UTC/CNRS 7253 in the field of Intelligent Vehicles. You can find more details about the equipments and research results directly on the website of PACPUS platform: ​https://pacpus.hds.utc.fr

To carry out experiments with Intelligent Vehicles or robots, Heudiasyc has developed the PACPUS framework to solve the systems integration issues. The framework is designed around the ​ KISS principle and use ​Component-based software engineering. Developments are done mainly in C++.

Why PACPUS?

The development of PACPUS started in 2006 and the source code was released as open source in 2013. Very often people ask us why not using ROS in place of PACPUS? Our answer is quite simple, we started the development of PACPUS before ROS would exist and it will be a huge work to leave all the code just to move to ROS. So we prefer continuing the development of PACPUS and providing gateways to other middleware like ​ROS, ​RTMaps,...