Tom Amlicke is lead software architect and robotics systems engineer at MedAcuity, a specialized engineering firm that focuses on software development for MedTech and robotics companies and innovators, where he oversees end-to-end development of ROS-based mobile robots and surgical robots. With over twenty years of embedded and application-level development experience, Tom designs and deploys enterprise, embedded, and mobile solutions. Additionally, his expertise includes simulation and model-based design to better understand the operating principles of robots and robotic systems under development.
Developing a robot is more complicated than a standard embedded software implementation. There are unique challenges to overcome to ensure that a robot will meet its requirements, function as intended, and be delivered on time and on budget. The teams developing robotics software must coordinate well within their own team while also working in parallel…
