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Browsers and Robotics Community Group
This group was closed on 2023-04-07.
This community group will discuss the applications of web browsers as the computer for controlling robots (robotics, in other words). And it will be also intended to feedback knowledge obtained from this discussion to standardization activity about Web of Things.
What kinds of values are contained in using a Web browser not only in drawing graphical user interface but also in controlling and manipulating robots, and what kinds of difficulties and problems are there in that case? To search their answers may become the driving force of this activity.
As an example, there may be the following questions in the discussion:
Is a case applying a Web browser as a simple controller of the robots which does not have UI such as screens or the pointing devices still meaningful? For example, connectivity with web services and interlocking operation between robots (Swarm Robotics via web) may be one of its values.
Is it possible to relate a graphical user interface of HTML to interactive and physical user interface of the robots? Is it meaningful? As an example, a relation between a physical push button and 'input' type="button" element in the HTML may deserve considering.
Are cases using relatively low-level interface used in many robots such as PWM of the motor, digital or analog signal interfaces, I2C, SPI, UART and GPIOs by the application on the web browsers meaningful?
Is real-time computing at the same level as RTOS feasible on the web browser-based general-purpose computing environments?
An initial related activity is the Mozilla Factory Open Hardware Project.
Furthermore, this group may publish specifications based on those knowledge such as webGPIO, webI2C API and so on.
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Additional Implementations and Examples and Tutorials
Satoru Takagi
Posted on:
October 21, 2021
WebGPIO and WebI2C implementations for Node.js have been released.
Available at:
Using these, you will be able to build headless applications on low-power board computers like the Raspberry Pi Zero.
There are also CHIRIMEN tutorials for several models (Raspberry Pi, Pi Zero, micro:bit, ty51822r3) that have been put together as a development environment. The tutorial homepage is here.
The tutorial includes a device driver library using WebI2C for easy use of dozens of I2C devices.
And there are resources available for beginners to enjoy easier prototyping.
Implementations
Satoru Takagi
Posted on:
August 19, 2019
As far as we know, WebGPIO and WebI2C are implemented by
CHIRIMEN Open Hardware Community
There are native implementations for B2G, polyfill implementations for Raspbian, and implementations via WebBluetooth.
CHIRMEN for Raspberry Pi3
CHIRIMEN with micro:bit
CHIRIMEN for TY51822r3
CHIRIMEN for B2G board computer CMN2015_1
Please contact us if you have any other implementations.
Discuss specs on gitHub.
Satoru Takagi
Posted on:
August 19, 2019
The browsers and robotics CG gitHub repositories are located below.
ISSUE can be set up for each spec, so let’s discuss it.
Issues for WebGPIO
Issues for WebI2C
Call for Participation in Browsers and Robotics Community Group
W3C Team
Posted on:
October 22, 2014
The
Browsers and Robotics Community Group
has been launched:
This community group will be intended to discuss the applications of web browsers as the computer for controlling robots (robotics in other words). And it will be also intended to feed back knowledge obtained from this discussion to standardization activity about Web of Things.
What kinds of values are contained in using a Web browser not only in drawing graphical user interface but also in controlling and manipulating robots, and what kinds of difficulties and problems are there in that case? To search their answers may become the driving force of this activity.
As an example, there may be the following questions in the discussion. Is a case applying a Web browser as a simple controller of the robots which does not have UI such as screens or the pointing devices still meaningful? For example, connectivity with web services and interlocking operation between robots (Swarm Robotics via web) may be one of its values. Is it possible to relate a graphical user interface of HTML to interactive and physical user interface of the robots? Is it meaningful? As an example, a relation between a physical push button and ‘input’ type=”button” element in the HTML may deserve considering. Are cases using relatively low-level interface used in many robots such as PWM of the motor, digital or analog signal interfaces, I2C, SPI, UART and GPIOs by the application on the web browsers meaningful? Is real-time computing at the same level as RTOS feasible on the web browser-based general-purpose computing environments?
Initial related activity is Mozilla Factory Open Hardware Project.
This group will not publish specifications.
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This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2014-10-21 by Satoru Takagi. The following people supported its creation: Satoru Takagi, Michael Petychakis, Futomi Hatano, koichi takagi, wakasa masao, Naoki Sekiguchi. W3C’s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.
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