Team & contact

ExoStack is developed at CSIR–Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur, India.

Team

Debadrata Sarkar, Soumen Sen, Aman Arora

Human Centred Robotics and Cybernetics Group, CSIR–Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-CMERI), Durgapur, India

Contact

For questions, collaborations and bug reports, write to us or open an issue on GitHub.

Contributing

Bug reports, new drivers and plug-ins are welcome. Open an issue describing the change, then a pull request against main on GitHub. New sensors, actuators and algorithms follow the templates in ESA drivers and ExoCore plug-ins.

License

The ExoStack source code is released under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0: it may be used, modified and shared for research, teaching and other noncommercial purposes; commercial use needs a separate license from the authors. This documentation, the user manual and the website, is released under CC BY-NC 4.0. The vendor libraries shipped with ESA keep their own licenses (THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md in the repository). The fonts of this website are distributed under the SIL Open Font License.

Acknowledgments

This work was fully supported by the CSIR-National Laboratory Scheme under the ULIP [MLP002613] and the CSIR Mission Mode Project [NCP010303].

This work involved human subjects. Approval of all ethical and experimental procedures was granted by the 7th sitting of the Institutional Ethical Board of CSIR-CMERI, Durgapur, India, on 27 February 2024.