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March 27 - Day 5 - Exploring a Publisher-Subscriber Controller
Mar 27, 2020
Participants with engage with a simple controller using the ROS publisher-subscriber method. A discussion of the  ROS publisher-subscriber message handling for monitoring and control will be presented. Also, software code, physical hardware...
March 26 - Day 4 - Angle Control with ROS
Mar 26, 2020
The application of angle control with a ROS subscriber will be discussed and demonstrated in this Day 4 session. To illustrate ROS angle control, a servo motor will be demonstrated. Also, examples of angle control applications will be presented in...
March 25 - Day 3 - Understanding the ROS Publisher
Mar 25, 2020
This session will discuss the attributes of a ROS Publisher component. Participants will learn how a ROS publisher can monitor events of digital sensors or electromechanical switches. In this interactive format participants will learn how to wire...
March 24 - Day 2 - Understanding ROS Subscribers
Mar 24, 2020
The Day 2 session will allow course participants to explore the subscriber technique to control an external device. Participants will learn about the ROS subscriber by blinking a discrete LED. Also, enhancing the LED display using a micro:bit will...
March 23 - Day 1 - Introduction to ROS
Mar 23, 2020
 A review of the concepts, terminology, and components that comprise of the ROS architecture will be presented in the Day 1 session of the webinar course. Participants will be presented with the software library components in an interactive format...
February 27 - Day 4 - Systems
Feb 27, 2020
Embedded systems are just that—systems that interact with the environment and other systems in a complex way. This includes cloud computing resources, edge processing and the communications to tie it all together. We will look at new devices and...
February 26 - Day 3 - Toolkit: Hardware
Feb 26, 2020
The other side of the system is the hardware. We will discuss the advances in hardware that make the implementation of AI/ML in embedded systems. This is a fast-moving area driven by improvements in areas such as memory capacity, processor speed...
February 25 - Day 2 - Toolkit: Algorithms
Feb 25, 2020
We will review in detail the algorithmic landscape making up the software and analytic side of the system. This class will provide an overview of the topic of AI/ML and some history, as well as examples of detailed algorithms.
January 31 - Day 5 – Digi XBee Wi-Fi On Your Phone
Jan 31, 2020
The final lecture in this series will consist of an application based on a XBee Wi-Fi module. If you have followed my chain of lectures, you know that I like to do things with cell phones.  So, we’re going to assemble an application that involves...
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