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Robots and Pi

Robots and Pi

State of the art, challenges and ideas for building robots with the RaspberryPi

Chinmay Pendharkar

April 08, 2013
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  1. Robots and Pi
    Raspberry Jam SG #4
    HackerspaceSG

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  2. ??

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  3. Using Raspberry Pi to make Robots!
    ● Step 1 : Buy a Raspberry Pi
    ● Step 2 : ??
    ● Step 3 : Profit!

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  4. Using Raspberry Pi to make Robots
    ● What's out there?
    ● Challenges?
    ● Solutions?

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  5. What's out there?
    Fish Pi
    fishpi.org

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  6. What's out there?
    TigerEye
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5ThFNf2_44

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  7. What's out there?
    Charlotte
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya1GKuCRWfo

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  8. What's out there?
    Hagar

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  9. What's out there?
    Pibotnix
    http://livebots.cc/Robot/View/30

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  10. What's out there?
    Picopter
    http://www.botched.co.uk/picopters-maiden-flight/

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  11. What's out there?
    AUVs
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=H0mIRADzzik

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  12. What's out there?
    CoconutPi
    https://www.facebook.com/coconutpi?fref=ts

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  13. What's out there?
    Bartendro
    http://partyrobotics.com/our-bots/bartendro-15/

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  14. Challenges : IO

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  15. Challenges : IO

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  16. Challenges : Performance

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  17. Challenges : Performance
    iPhone RPi
    ARM 1136JS

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  18. Challenges : Performance
    ● No GP-GPU (CUDA/OpenCL) support (yet?)
    ● Max 512MB RAM (yet?)
    ● No High Speed Bus

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  19. Strengths
    ● Power Usage

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  20. Strengths
    ● Community

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  21. Possible Solutions?
    ● Distributed Architecture?
    Command and Control
    RaspberryPi
    Sensor Board
    (Pre-Calculate)
    Controller Board
    Sensor Actuator

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  22. Possible Solutions?
    ● Dedicated OS

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  23. !!

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  24. Interesting Links
    Hack A Day
    http://hackaday.com/category/raspberry-pi-2/
    RaspberryPi Foundation Blog
    http://www.raspberrypi.org/
    The MagPi
    http://www.themagpi.com/

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  25. Interesting Links
    Singapore AUV Challenge
    http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/singapore/oes/sauvc/
    Robot OS
    http://www.ros.org/wiki/Robots#Robots_Using_ROS
    Adafruit #piday
    http://www.adafruit.com/blog/?s=piday

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  26. Geek · Acoustician · Podcaster
    http://chinpen.net
    Chinmay Pendharkar

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