Robots on Linux - the prospect of "robosokker"?
Latin America has been experiencing its “own” for the second week at the next America’s Cup in Venezuela. At the same time, research teams from all over the globe are sent to the North American continent, to Atlanta, to present their latest developments in the field of robotics at another football championship - the Robot Cup . The main trend of Robocup 2007 is the replacement of the well-served Sony AIBO platform with Linux-based development.
Yes, Sony AIBO is not only a robot dog. AIBO stands for artificial intelligence bot (robot with artificial intelligence) and is a platform for creating robots. Scientific teams participating in the Robot Cup traditionally develop their robot players on this platform. But this year, more and more teams prefer development based on open API. This state of affairs was most likely influenced by the statement by Sony (made back in 2006) that the company is stopping the improvement as AIBO, like its “human-like” version, QRIO . As a result, in 2007, at least two companies filed applications for the replacement of AIBO.
According to the organizers of the Robot Cup, for more than 10 years of existence of the tournament (this year it is 11 in a row), “robot football” has significantly evolved. Player robots began to move faster, much better oriented on the field in search of the ball, or rather hit the ball and even show the beginnings of a team game. In many ways, this is a merit of not only the developers, but also the AIBO platform. But in order not to stand still (goodbye, AIBO), sports scientists are looking for new approaches. And, according to the developers, Linux-based systems fully meet their needs.
One of the new models - Nao - was developed by Aldebaran for two years. This is a humanoid robot running one of the varieties of the Linux operating system. In addition, the software for the open source project URBI (Universal Real-time Behavior Interface - a universal interface for real-time behavior) was chosen as software for Nao. Although Linux robots are far from perfect. I remember, at the racing competitions among robots in 2006, running under the Linux operating system, the Tommy robot literally "killed itself against the wall." It is not clear where he "caught a glitch", but after a collision at a speed of 70 km / h with a fence Tommy did not survive. The developers of Nao claim that even despite the fact that their robot was learning to play football in France, he wouldn’t kick anyone in the stomach (hello, Zidane!). I want to believe…
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Aldebaran will put on the field also a smaller one, a new model of the second generation Nao, which is analogous to the famous AIBO doggie.
The robot weighs 2.5 kilograms (more than AIBO) is equipped with stereo-sights and various sensors, and works under control of the AMD Geode LX800 processor with a clock frequency of 500 MHz (as well as humanoid Nao). The developers from Aldebaran promise that after the competition they will provide in public access all the information about the creation of Nao.
via PC Magazine / RE , LinuxDevices
Yes, Sony AIBO is not only a robot dog. AIBO stands for artificial intelligence bot (robot with artificial intelligence) and is a platform for creating robots. Scientific teams participating in the Robot Cup traditionally develop their robot players on this platform. But this year, more and more teams prefer development based on open API. This state of affairs was most likely influenced by the statement by Sony (made back in 2006) that the company is stopping the improvement as AIBO, like its “human-like” version, QRIO . As a result, in 2007, at least two companies filed applications for the replacement of AIBO.
According to the organizers of the Robot Cup, for more than 10 years of existence of the tournament (this year it is 11 in a row), “robot football” has significantly evolved. Player robots began to move faster, much better oriented on the field in search of the ball, or rather hit the ball and even show the beginnings of a team game. In many ways, this is a merit of not only the developers, but also the AIBO platform. But in order not to stand still (goodbye, AIBO), sports scientists are looking for new approaches. And, according to the developers, Linux-based systems fully meet their needs.
One of the new models - Nao - was developed by Aldebaran for two years. This is a humanoid robot running one of the varieties of the Linux operating system. In addition, the software for the open source project URBI (Universal Real-time Behavior Interface - a universal interface for real-time behavior) was chosen as software for Nao. Although Linux robots are far from perfect. I remember, at the racing competitions among robots in 2006, running under the Linux operating system, the Tommy robot literally "killed itself against the wall." It is not clear where he "caught a glitch", but after a collision at a speed of 70 km / h with a fence Tommy did not survive. The developers of Nao claim that even despite the fact that their robot was learning to play football in France, he wouldn’t kick anyone in the stomach (hello, Zidane!). I want to believe…
')
Aldebaran will put on the field also a smaller one, a new model of the second generation Nao, which is analogous to the famous AIBO doggie.
The robot weighs 2.5 kilograms (more than AIBO) is equipped with stereo-sights and various sensors, and works under control of the AMD Geode LX800 processor with a clock frequency of 500 MHz (as well as humanoid Nao). The developers from Aldebaran promise that after the competition they will provide in public access all the information about the creation of Nao.
via PC Magazine / RE , LinuxDevices
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/12012/
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