> We’d love to hear your thoughts! :)
Have you ever played any of the Horizon (Zero Dawn/Forbidden West) games? :)
Jokes aside, it looks pretty cool. What kind of hardware have you tested it with so far? Is this using WiFi only?
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This first beta version allows you to create fully decentralized robot swarms. The system will set up a wireless mesh network and run a p2p networking stack on top of it, such that nodes can interact with each other through various abstractions using our SDKs (Rust, Python, TypeScript) or a CLI.
We hope this is a step toward better inter-robot communication (and a fun project if you have a few Raspberry Pis lying around).
Our mesh network is created by B.A.T.M.A.N.-adv and we’ve combined this with optimized decentralized algorithms. To a user, it becomes very easy to write decentralized applications involving several peers since we’ve abstracted away much of the complexity. Our system currently offers several orchestration primitives (Key-Value Store, Pub-Sub, Discovery, Request-Response, Mesh Inspection, Debug Services, etc.)
Internally, everything except the SDKs is written in Rust, building on top of libp2p. We use gRPC to communicate between the SDKs and the CLI, so libraries for other languages are possible, and we welcome contributions (or feedback).
The C++ SDK and a ROS package that should feel natural to roboticists are in the works. Soon we also want to support a collaborative SLAM and a distributed task queue.
We’d love to hear your thoughts! :)
Have you ever played any of the Horizon (Zero Dawn/Forbidden West) games? :)
Jokes aside, it looks pretty cool. What kind of hardware have you tested it with so far? Is this using WiFi only?
Thank you! So far, we have tested it with Raspberry Pi 4/5. Jetson boards are on backorder. We have some Intel WiFi chips (since they support some stuff we want), and we will get around to trying them next.
The binaries were also tested on x86 machinery.
In general, I'm not too worried about hardware support since batman-adv is quite widely deployed on a diverse set of hardware and the rest is hardware agnostic.