From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:55:46 -0400 From: Bhanu Nagendra Pisupati To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 in robotics In-Reply-To: <20061010075244.D9128E7C7@mail.cse.psu.edu> Message-ID: References: <20061010075244.D9128E7C7@mail.cse.psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Topicbox-Message-UUID: c820147e-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 As part of our research at Indiana, we have used Inferno to provide proxy access to hardware resources such as console, mass storage and COM ports for embedded devices such as robots. Infact we just submitted a conference paper relating to this: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~bpisupat/work/pubs/iscas07.pdf The work is based on a home cooked robot used as an instructional platform in our department, some based on ARM7 and others on MSP430 MCUs: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~geobrown/goofy.html Our approach is converse to that used in styx-on-a-brick, meaning we implement 9p clients on the embedded (robot) side which mount and access fileservers hosted on workstations through serial/wireless links. In contrast styx-on-a-brick implements 9p fileservers on the robot side. There are arguments for using either of these approaches, depending on the end objective. -Bhanu