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“We don’t do insects, we don’t do missiles.” – Brett Aldrich (SMACC Architect)

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From it’s inception, SMACC was written to support the programming of multi-component, complex robots.

If your project involves small, solar-powered insect robots, that simply navigate towards a light source, and as a developer you’re focused on how to run a state machine on an $1, EEPROM chip with 8kb of memory, then SMACC is probably not the right choice for you… (We recommend an if/else statements, in a while loop, in C99).

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Or if you’re project is a hypersonic missile, and because you travel at MACH 7+ you need an update loop that runs at 50MHz, SMACC is also probably not the right choice for you… (We also recommend if/else statements, in a while loop, in C99).

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But if you are trying to program a robot with a mobile base, a robotic arm, a gripper, two lidar sensors, a gps transceiver and an imu,

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or you’re trying to build an autonomous submarine with an array of sensors and actuators…

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or you’re trying to build a UAV that looks something like this…

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And you want the ability to program complex autonomous behaviors with ROS right out of the box, in a systematic manner, with deterministic execution, that has the potential to be deployed on systems with real-time requirements….

then you’ve come to the right place.