A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
The goal of the Cloud Robotics initiative of the SPLab is to ease the integration of Cloud Computing and Robotics workloads. One of the first things we need to sort out is how to leverage different networking models available on the cloud to support these mixed workloads. In this blog post we’ll see one little […]
The Service Engineering (SE, blog.zhaw.ch/icclab) group at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) / Institute of Applied Information Technology (InIT) in Switzerland is seeking applications for a full-time position at its Winterthur facility. The successful candidate will work in the Service Prototyping Lab (SPLab) and will contribute to the research initiative on cloud robotics, […]
We received our RPLIDAR this morning and, just as kids on Christmas day, we were very eager to play with it right away. But I’ll hold my horses, as I can hear you ask: “and what exactly is a RPLIDAR?” A RPLIDAR is a low cost LIDAR sensor (i.e., a light-based radar, a “laser scanner”) […]
Overview The connection between the physical world and the virtual world has never been as exciting, accessible, and economically viable as today. Sensors, actors and robots are able to deliver many physical services in several scenarios, including industrial production and home automation, elderly care, assisted living, logistics and cooperative maintenance. In isolation, computing capabilities of […]