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John Deere R-Gator Military Unmanned Vehicle iRobot onboard systems for robotic control, navigation and object avoidance
John Deere's R-Gator military unmanned ground vehicle is built on the M-Gator™ utility vehicle platform. R-Gator is enhanced with iRobot's proprietary robot technology can autonomously perform dangerous military missions including acting as an unmanned scout, "point man," perimeter guard, pack/ammo/supply carrier and more, for soldiers, marines and airmen.
iRobot used BlueCat® embedded Linux®, a commercial-grade embedded operating system based on the Linux 2.6 kernel, to power the R-Gator's robotic control, navigation and object avoidance systems. In addition to the R-Gator, iRobot makes several other military robots based on Linux.
A few embedded-system platforms that defense and aerospace developers are using with LynuxWorks operating systems:
- AMCC 460EX
- Curtiss-Wright SVME/DMV-183
- Curtiss-Wright SVME/DMV-184
- Emerson MVME7100
- Extreme Engineering XPedite6032
- Freescale HPCN Evaluation and Development Platform
- GE PPC7D
- Kontron PENTXM2
- Kontron VM6250
- Kontron VMPC6a (single processor)
- Kontron VMPC6c (single processor)
- Kontron VMPC6d (single processor)
Virtualization / RTOS News
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- Building on 2011—the year that Secure Computing came of age -12/14
- Video: Secure Partitioning LynxSecure from LynuxWorks -11/11
- Video: Cloud Computing with LynxSecure from LynuxWorks -11/11
- Secure data Storage Helps Deliver Mission-Critical Information to Defense and Aerospace Personnel -11/28
EVENTS
- Embedded World 2012, Nuremberg, Germany, Feb 28-Mar 1
- Device-Driver and Real-Time Programming for the LynxOS RTOS Family, San José, CA, USA, Feb 27-Mar 2
- RSA Conference USA, San Francisco, CA, USA, Feb 27-Mar 2
