Smarter Robots
At the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., the goal of these engineering students and professors is to create autonomous robot designs—ones that can be preprogrammed so that nothing can interfere with their design-in purpose. Using Lego MindStorm components, all the normal EDA tools, an ARM processor and Actel FPGAs, the goal is to create prototypes for battlefield-hardened devices. The results in this video are primitive, but it’s a first step in one of the most complex system-level design.
