Grendel One

25 Sep 2017

Hi, to anyone who comes to read this. My name is Christopher Rehm and I am working on a robotics project that some of you may be interested in. basically i have built a custom cluster computer using 5 raspberry pis, which is the control system for a robot. the servos that control the robots movements are run by arduino micro controllers. I have built a website all about the project and would suggest that as first reading about the Grendel One project. It involves hardware design, power supply, and sensor design, programming, a customized NIO message interface for Java programs to run asynchronously, machine learning and more. It's the kind of thing pretty much anyone could create for a few hundred euros, assuming they have time and interest to do so. I invite all to have a look at the website and continue to read the blog on the development of the project.

next post ill give a little project history...

here is the grendel site:

http://grendelone.christopherrehm.de

you can also download my working paper here, as I have attached it to this post.

Attachments:

grendelWhitePaper.pdf

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DAB over 7 years ago

Interesting project.

Do you have a build out plan?

What parts of the project will you complete first.
How are you going to test them.
How do you plan to integrate each thread as it becomes active.

Just curious.

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johnfire over 7 years ago in reply to DAB

basically each pi runs a control program and they are all connected with an asychronous message passing interface built in java (NIO) some of the Pis are devoted to things like processing incoming video or audio, some are structured to run general purpose machine learning algorithims on data sent by the controller. they all share a common memory space ( NFS presently) and so they can pass data simply by passing addresses on a hard drive.
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DAB over 7 years ago in reply to johnfire

Are you looking at a way to keep track of your control boards to look out for failure and to recover your status via state machine implementation?

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DAB over 7 years ago in reply to johnfire

Are you looking at a way to keep track of your control boards to look out for failure and to recover your status via state machine implementation?

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