Future Goals

Hardware components and diagnostics

We continuously keep improving the diagnostics of the existing PR2 hardware components, to give a more complete status overview of the PR2 on the dashboard.

At the same time we're experimenting with additional/improved hardware components such as:

• Microphones
• Speakers
• GPU
• Multi-roam wireless network
• ...

Default bringup

As software components mature, more and more of them will get started by default when the PR2 robot gets launched. To control the load on the PR2 computers, a component typically only becomes active on demand, either by detecting that another node connected to one of its topics, or using an explicit activation mechanism (e.g. action protocol).