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Intel combines Robots, WLANs, and Linux

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the stealthy-wardrivers dept.

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."

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    Mind-1.1 in JavaScript is the AI Tutorial version of the same robot Mind software for true artificial intelligence.

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  2. Intel Stayton boards by CTho9305 · · Score: 4, Informative

    These boards are really cool (Stayton is used on the CMU TagBots). We (CMU Robotics Club) normally use a board designed by robotics club members to control robots, but they are based on 20MHz PICs, and don't have and wireless support (at least presently). When combined with the Intel board, however, the big processing can be done there, and the Cerebellum can just be used as a smart motor driver and sensor interface board.

    This lets the robots run more complex code and communicate with each other wirelessly. Intel has provided CMU with enough boards for a LOT of cool projects.

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  3. Some of this has been done before by Steve1952 · · Score: 2, Informative

    The idea of using robots to communicate to wireless sensors has been around for a while. See, for example, USPTO patent application 20020173877.