BSDCan2016 - v1.1.24a
BSDCan 2016
The Technical BSD Conference
| Speakers | |
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Edicarla Andrade |
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Vinícius Zavam |
| Schedule | |
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| Day | Talks #1 - 10 June - 2016-06-10 |
| Room | DMS 1120 |
| Start time | 14:45 |
| Duration | 01:00 |
| Info | |
| ID | 658 |
| Event type | Lecture |
| Track | Embedded |
| Language used for presentation | English |
FreeBSD, BeagleBone Black and Robotics
Authorities empowered to control, support and guide endeavours the academic research behind the modeling of Aduka-II, a hexapod robot with 12 degrees of freedom
Aduka-II is a remotely operated hexapod robot powered by BeagleBone black and FreeBSD that offers server/client connection over WiFi to control its directions to be used as a supervisory system.
Hexapod robots are terrestrial mobile robots that have six legs for locomotion; they are morphologically resembling insects, arthropods with three pairs of legs. Building a mobile robot involves a number of peculiarities, it is necessary to deal with guidance position errors, problems with the batteries, programming errors, choice of engines and materials for frame. Therefore the right choice of an operational system can make the difference during the project.
This talk is about a remotely operated hexapod robot powered by BeagleBone black and FreeBSD that offers server/client connection over WiFi to control its directions to be used as a supervisory system. The hardware platform is composed by a Beaglebone Black (BBB) and a dedicated Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) demultiplexer board. Most of the work behind controlling the pod and its sensors also contributed to new code added to the FreeBSD's base system to ARMv6 with the benefits granted by Flattened Device Trees (FDT).
The main idea of this talk is to show the possibilities of developing a remotely operated hexapod robot (Aduka-II) and its control system out of many researchers' comfort zone.