Improved rover

We improved the rover with 6 infrared sensors now, it is much better, have a look :



As you can see the rover is now able to increase its speed (black symbol on right) decrease it (black/left) make a small pause (white/left) or a long pause (white/right).

3D Exploration

At some stage, it appeared that some applications we could envision would require three dimensional mobility: space/sea exploration, human-body navigation, etc.

Even though this is too much in advance, we found some robots (and here) that we could use in such settings.

Resume@Ubicomp2007

I am currently in Innsbruck, in Tyrol, for the Ubicomp'2007 conference. The place is nice, especially the old town and the Alps surrounding the city.

Yesterday I presented our paper entitled "Experimental Evaluation of Resilience for Ubiquitous Mobile Systems". I must say that I received a very good feedback even though I was no very satisfied with my presentation.

We decided, Aaron Quigley, Steve Neely, Lorcan Coyle and myself, to try to go for a Ulysses cooperation. The basic idea is that we would come to their lab in UCD and help them setting up a few robots and they would come to LAAS in order to measure the Crickets accuracy (and possibly compare it with Ubisense, and improve it).

Update: the project proposal has been submitted and we keep the fingers crossed while waiting for the evaluation.

Nanobot pictures

One of the applications we are building the platform for is nano-robots. We envision an army of nanobots that one should inject into the human body to perform a given task, such as to deliver a given amount of medicine in a particular region, or killing such virus, etc.

I was looking for images of nanobots to illustrate the talk I will give on sunday at the Ubiquitous Systems Evaluation workshop about Resume and I found the fantastic work of Tim Fonseca at the Nanotech Art Gallery.

The Robot is alive

The robot is here loaded with a typical load. The ream of paper weights about the same as a typical laptop. The following video aspect-ratio is not correct, we will do better next time.



There are also some pictures of the robot, on different angles, and also of the modified 802.11 wireless interfaces.

Robot 1

The Resume Experience

Hi,

The Resume Experience is about some experimental research we are conducting at LAAS-CNRS about experimental validation and evaluation of the resilience of mobile and ubiquitous computing.

This reaserch is linked with:

• The MoSAIC project: cooperative backup between mobile (adhoc) devices


• The Hidenets (HIghly DEpendable ip-based NETworks and Services) project: telematics in the automotive context


• The ReSIST network of excellence: all you want to know about resilience in the IST

On this blog, we will try to keep you informed of the development of the experimental platform.