More details on Intel’s XScale/Linux robotics platform
May 2, 2003 — by LinuxDevices Staff — from the LinuxDevices Archive — 2 viewsSubsequent to publishing an article by Jim Butler, a researcher in Intel's Emerging Platforms Lab, about Intel's current research into wireless mobile robotics technology, LinuxDevices.com requested further details regarding the XScale/Linux based hardware/software robotics platform that Intel has developed.
Here is the reply we received from Jim Buther . . .
“We are currently engaged with a limited number of researchers at CMU, USC, Stanford, Georgia Tech, etc. to develop a common platform based on XScale and Linux. We have deployed over 100 XScale boards to a variety of robotics researchers. The Linux port is working reasonably well with deployments to about 15 researchers.”
“The boards are not yet available from a third party but we have plans to enable a third party shortly. The boards are identical to those used in our wireless sensor network gateway where we are collaborating with Crossbow, Inc. in the development of new systems (info). We are also working with Acroname on the development of robots using these XScale boards (info).”
“The Linux source code is available at Carnegie Mellon University (here) and Portland State University (here) ). We have taken the standard 2.4.19 release for ARM and applied the XScale PXA250 patches plus one for the Stayton board.”
“We are also engaged in creating specifications for reusable, interoperable building blocks for mobile robots. More information is available at the Robotics Engineering Task Force website.”
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