Implementation of a Yard Automation Application

helyOS core is a single NodeJS application serving ports 5000, 5002 and 8080 for the GraphQL connection, the web socket connection and the dashboard GUI respectively. helyOS connects as a client to Postgres and RabbitMQ. All parameters for these connections are passed as environment variables.

Since helyOS is containerized, it is easy to launch a helyOS application in the cloud. Users can either run the container inside a single Linux or Windows computer of a cloud provider, or they can implement helyOS in a serverless approach using available cloud products with horizontal auto scaling.

helyOS yard automation application

What is possible in the helyOS framework?

The helyOS framework gives developers many options to solve yard automation problems. To better use this flexibility, the helyOS framework suggests a template to organize the data flow and the responsibilities of each domain. Following this template will lead to a more robust and maintainable software architecture.

Examples of missions using helyOS

1. Application requests a map update.

2. Application requests truck to drive from A to B using an online path planner.

3. Application requests truck to drive from A to B using an online path planner but employing the most recent map data in the path calculation.

4. Application requests robot to take pictures and update the map objects.