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Archive for May, 2006


On robotics abstractions (or how robots can’t take over the world, yet)

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

In trying to program for real-time control, good platform-assisted concurrency is vastly useful. It seems sensible to keep the limitations of a sequential execution process out of the actual software and instead, in the underlying runtime. (see TVM). Highly concurrent runtimes for small devices aren’t prevalent, and a lot of work with small robotics devices [...]