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                        <a title="Introduction to the Scout robot" href="/intro.php">Background</a>
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                        <a title="Mechanics of the Colony Scout" href="/mechanics.php">Platform</a>
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                        <a title="Applications for the Colony Scout" href="/applications.php">How to Use It</a>
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                                        <h1>Hardware Platform</h1><img src="images/btn_expand.png" /></a>
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                                        <p><span class="description">Scout uses a dual chip architecture to support a vast array of 
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                                        devices and provide computational prowess. The system flash memory is expandable and can grow to 
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                                                <h2>System Overview</h2>
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                                                <p>The Scout mainboard pairs an 8-bit AVR as an IO node with an 32-bit ARM Cortex A8 for heavy computational 
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                                                <h3>System Specifications</h3>
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                                                                <li>ARM Cortex&trade; A8 (TI OMAP 3503)</li>
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                                                                                <li>Clocked at 600Mhz</li>
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                                                                <li>ATMega&trade; 128RFA1</li>
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                                                                                <li>Clocked at 16Mhz</li>
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                                                                                <li>Inbuilt Zigbee&reg; Wireless</li>
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                                        <h1>Software Architecture</h1><img src="images/btn_expand.png" /></a>
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                                        <p><span class="description">Scout runs on a Gumstix (Overo) port of <a href="http://www.ros.org/"/>ROS</a> 
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                                        (robot operating system), which provides the infrastructure necessary to control a complex robotic system. ROS has 
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                                                Multitasking will allow the software that runs on the robot to be split up into tasks which can each handle a 
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                                                subsystem such as wireless communication or odometry. Users will be able to write high level programs and 
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                                                <p>The operating system will also provide abstractions like virtual memory which will prevent errors in 
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                                                which will do things like cliff detection or even autonomous recharging.</p>
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                                                <h3>POSIX compliant OS</h3>
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                                                        <li>Use standard UNIX tools (ssh, bash, compile on the robot)</li>
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                                                        <li>IPv6 6LoWPAN Networking</li>
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