Distributed robotic systems in the edge-cloud continuum with ros 2: A review on novel architectures and technology readiness

J Zhang, F Keramat, X Yu… - … Conference on Fog …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic systems are more connected, networked, and distributed than ever. New
architectures that comply with the de facto robotics middleware standard, ROS 2, have …

Robotcore: An open architecture for hardware acceleration in ros 2

V Mayoral-Vilches, SM Neuman… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hardware acceleration can revolutionize robotics, enabling new applications by speeding
up robot response times while remaining power-efficient. However, the diversity of …

Robotperf: An open-source, vendor-agnostic, benchmarking suite for evaluating robotics computing system performance

V Mayoral-Vilches, J Jabbour, YS Hsiao… - … on Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce RobotPerf, a vendor-agnostic bench-marking suite designed to evaluate
robotics computing performance across a diverse range of hardware platforms using ROS 2 …

Model-based approach for automatic generation of hardware architectures for robotics

A Podlubne, J Mey, R Schöne, U Aßmann… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Increasingly complex robotic platforms incorporate heterogeneous sensors and actuators.
They are usually coupled with embedded computers but relying on software solutions not …

MPSoC4Drones: An open framework for ROS2, PX4, and FPGA integration

FF Nyboe, NH Malle, E Ebeid - 2022 international conference …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous drones are facing a tough efficiency challenge due to limitations on the utilized
processing hardware units. Among these limitations is the tradeoff between fast computing …

Adaptive computing in robotics, leveraging ros 2 to enable software-defined hardware for fpgas

V Mayoral-Vilches, G Corradi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.03276, 2021 - arxiv.org
Traditional software development in robotics is about programming functionality in the CPU
of a given robot with a pre-defined architecture and constraints. With adaptive computing …

A Survey on Adaptive Computing in Robotics: Modelling, Methods and Applications

A Podlubne, D Göhringer - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern robots are complex heterogeneous systems composed of different Processing
Elements (PEs) with multiple sensors and actuators. This implies that different experts are …

Hardware Acceleration with Zero-Copy Memory Management for Heterogeneous Computing

O Bell, C Gill, X Zhang - 2023 IEEE 29th International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ROS2 software framework is increasingly prevalent in component-based applications
for robots and other autonomous systems. Recently added ROS2 features to support zero …

Smart rollators as a cost-effective solution for personalized assistance healthcare ecosystem in elderly communities

M Fernandez-Carmona, G Verdezoto… - … Computing and Ambient …, 2022 - Springer
Nowadays, the ratio of elderly people per caregiver is increasing, and the statistics confirm
that this trend will continue for decades. Healthcare systems need to change to support this …

A FPGA Accelerator of Distributed A3C Algorithm with Optimal Resource Deployment

F Ge, G Zhang, Z Li, F Zhou - IET Computers & Digital …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The asynchronous advantage actor‐critic (A3C) algorithm is widely regarded as one of the
most effective and powerful algorithms among various deep reinforcement learning …