ELDER Project

Project overview

ELDER (Embedded Linux Development for Robotics) Project is a robotic team which participated to the French robotic cup in May 2010. The team used an Armadeus APF27 + APF27Dev boards. This involved to work on both hardware and software designs. One of the goal of this project is to evolve and some parts are still under development.

The main features provided by the APF27 were:

• Robot location computation (X,Y,Orientation), done in hardware by the FPGA
• Robot motion control, done by the FPGA as well
• Multithreading program for high level implementations: path-finding, A.I., gui manager, CAN manager etc.

ELDER's main system architecture

ELDER's main boards (APF27 connected to the daughter board)

Project members

This project is actually the work of two students in last year of their Master in Engineering at the University of Strathclyde.

• PaulM
• Sebastien

Links

In order to help the development of this project and the team's communication, a wiki and a subversion repository have been created. Links are bellow.

• Wiki Note that the wiki might be updated during the next days.
• SVN repository

Notes about the Subversion repository

• The actual FPGA firmware files are located at "svn-elder/projects/fpga_fw"
• The actual software files are located at "svn-elder/projects/elder_sw/armadeus"
• You can already have a look to the students project reports at "svn-elder/resources/classe"

Detailled informations

More information comming soon