Re: PC vs PIC/Embedded robotics

aiiadict@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I think that every robot should have 1 PC or other CPU/computer,
and many PICs. The PIC's should be programmable in system,
so you can update your software (PC C, VB, Java, etc and PIC code)
and update how your sensors work and how your controlling program
interprets the sensor data.

Why?

I ask this of both the PC and the PICs.

I agree that a heirarchical system is probably the best for
the types of robots *I* want to build, but I wouldn't force
it on anybody else.

I've seen (and built) robots with a single PIC that can appear
to do intelligent things.

Skip the PICs, use FPGA's, and program your robot to learn
new ways to configure the FPGA according to efficiency, function.

Yes. I would like to eventually use FPGAs in my system.
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D. Jay Newman
http://enerd.ws/robots/
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