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Options and Pitfalls in Embedded Systems Development for Intelligent Humanoid Robots

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This paper describes the most popular options that are available developers of intelligent humanoid robots and their advantages and disadvantages. There has never been a wider range of affordable and practical solutions for the developers of intelligent humanoid robots. This paper lists the suitability of the most common options such as microcontrollers, ARM based embedded boards, and x86 based small PCs and how well the meet different design constraints. Using an example from low level vision processing, the paper highlights common pitfalls when including these more complex embedded systems in their robot.

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  1. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, R3T 2N2

    Jacky Baltes & John Anderson

  2. National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, 811, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Kuo-Yang Tu

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  1. Center for Artificial Intelligence Technology, Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

    Khairuddin Omar  & Mohammad Faidzul Nasrudin  & 

  2. Center for Artificial Intelligence Technology, Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

    Md Jan Nordin

  3. National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Prahlad Vadakkepat

  4. Center for Artificial Intelligence Technology (CAIT), Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM, Bangi, Selangor D.E., Malaysia

    Anton Satria Prabuwono  & Siti Norul Huda Sheikh Abdullah  & 

  5. Autonomous Agents Lab, University of Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

    Jacky Baltes

  6. Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIRO), Fakulti Kejuruteraan Elektrik, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia

    Shamsudin Mohd Amin

  7. Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor

    Wan Zuha Wan Hassan

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Baltes, J., Tu, KY., Anderson, J. (2013). Options and Pitfalls in Embedded Systems Development for Intelligent Humanoid Robots. In: Omar, K., et al. Intelligent Robotics Systems: Inspiring the NEXT. FIRA 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 376. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40409-2_7

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