# Introduction

## ROAR\_PY

ROAR\_PY is ROAR team's new control suite for controlling vehicles and robots. 

Checkout our repository [here](https://github.com/augcog/ROAR_PY).

It is a combination of an **abstract layer that unifies the controls** of robots/vehicles regardless of their actual hardware configuration and **actual implementation layers that sends control commands** to the actual running hardware.

Reasons you should adopt ROAR\_PY

1. It is a general framework for unifying control programs
2. It is RL-friendly! All ROAR\_PY sensor/actor interfaces are compatible with the Gymnasium framework
3. ROAR\_PY supports streaming actor controls / sensor readings over websockets or other custom protocols over ethernet / usb cables through minimal code changes

## Project Information

| Role                     | Name        | Contact                                             |
| ------------------------ | ----------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| Lead                     | Yunhao Cao  | [quantumcookie.xyz](https://www.quantumcookie.xyz/) |
| Contributor / Maintainer | Carl Gan    | <https://www.linkedin.com/in/qianxin-gan>           |
| Documentation Help       | Harris Song |                                                     |

## Acknowledgements

ROAR\_PY's documentation is graciously supported by Gitbook's Community(Education) Plan.