Intel combines Robots, WLANs, and Linux 62
An anonymous reader writes "This article by a researcher in Intel's Emerging Platforms Lab details some of Intel's current research into wireless, mobile robotics technology. A key goal of the effort, according to the article, is to efficiently combine the two technologies -- mobile robotics and wireless networks -- so that mobile robots can serve as gateways into wireless sensor networks.
The Intel project is providing robotics researchers with a robotics development package that includes standardized silicon, a Linux-based open-source operating system, and open-source software drivers for robotics applications. Additionally, Intel has released a test version of a technical library for building Bayesian networks, which will help advance the ability of robots to navigate their environments, and pilot systems based on Intel's open-source packages are already being deployed in a variety of flexible environments in agricultural, security, and military applications."
Is it linux based or RT linux based (Score:2, Interesting)
Looks interesting (Score:5, Interesting)
Surely the robot controller code could be emulated purely in software to determine how the robot will respond, a much more sophisticated version of the recent Java battle bots if you will.
Is there some benefit to physically building the robot when researching group intelligence ?
WLANs and Linux... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Looks interesting (Score:1, Interesting)
offloading the brain (Score:3, Interesting)
us are no longer used to. What would be excellent is if you could "offload" the brains via high speed wireless. 45mb wireless to high speed processor(s) I would think offer a much different version of robot programming than the current set. I would also think this would use less power than lugging a laptop around on the robot like the kit you can buy at compusa (let alone minaturization possibilities)
-avi
Intel + WLAN + Linux == unsupported (Score:5, Interesting)
I think this is symptomatic for many big companies. The left hand doesn't know what the right hand does...
Cheers, Peter
I've been doing this for 3 years now! (Score:2, Interesting)
If Intel tries to patent the idea it will piss me off. I did not feel this was worthy of a patent.
I'm driving servos with a pontech controller, I've monitoring Analog ports, I'm processing ultrasonic
ranging data. I've got some of my robots at
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