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Aquila Toolkit.

Aquila was my GPU-accelerated toolkit for cognitive robotics: modular CPU-GPU software, neural-network experiments, and iCub research infrastructure from the Plymouth PhD period.

iCub humanoid robot with NVIDIA GPU context

Why this page exists

A close match for old Aquila links.

Older references pointed to a Joomla article about Aquila. This page gives those links a focused replacement and keeps the current site anchored to the robotics sources.

Context

Cognitive robotics toolkit

Aquila connected iCub experiments, neural-network tools, CUDA acceleration, and modular robot-research software.

Sources
Source

Aquila 2.0 paper

The Aquila 2.0 architecture paper records the toolkit as reusable infrastructure for heterogeneous CPU/GPU cognitive robotics.

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Source

Open toolkit record

SourceForge preserves the project trace for Aquila and its software-architecture history.

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Related

Developing robots with CUDA

NVIDIA’s CUDA spotlight connects the same research period to GPU-accelerated humanoid robotics.

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Legacy Aquila software architecture splash image

Aquila archive

The toolkit was the working surface of the PhD period.

Aquila was not just a name in a publication list. It was the software layer that joined iCub experiments, CUDA acceleration, recurrent neural networks, camera filters, simulator modules, and teaching/research workflows.

Toolkit files

What the old software touched.

Small archive visuals from the Aquila/iCub period, kept to show the actual research machinery.

Archive source files

Aquila, iCub, and GPU robotics papers.

Metadata-stripped local archive copies for the older research period, alongside the public records already linked from the main source page.

2011

Aquila open-source GPU toolkit

IJCNN paper for the cognitive and neuro-robotics toolkit.

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2011

Action and language on iCub

ICDL-era paper linking humanoid action, language, and embodied learning.

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2012

MTRNN action learning on GPU

IJCNN paper on multiple time-scales recurrent neural networks and GPU acceleration for action learning.

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2012

NVIDIA GTC action-acquisition poster

GTC poster connecting iCub action acquisition, Aquila, CUDA, and measured GPU speedups.

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2012

GTC Express Aquila webinar

Archive slide deck for the NVIDIA GTC Express webinar on Aquila and cognitive robotics.

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2013

Aquila 2.0 architecture

ICDL-era Aquila 2.0 paper on reusable cognitive-robotics software architecture.

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