On the software side, the Halos operating system was designed to enable constant monitoring of \u201cevery hardware block\u201d and \u201cevery software library\u201d to swiftly spot any failures, Goel explained. The system also isolates safety-critical computing workloads to avoid any potential interference.<\/p>\n
The system also includes the Nvidia Holoscan Sensor Bridge that connects sensor data with safety-related computer processing in a way that can easily identify corrupted data. This can be embedded in individual hardware components, like a microcontroller or Field Programmable Gate Array.<\/p>\n
Last but not least, the Halos package also includes Nvidia\u2019s simulations for testing robots in virtual environments, and an inspection lab program that allows robotics companies and other partners to get quick feedback on any safety \u201cartifacts\u201d that arise during robotic development.<\/p>\n
However, adapting Nvidia Halos from autonomous vehicles to robotics required accommodating many different definitions of safety. The definition of functional safety for autonomous driving generally remains the same across different automotive companies and countries, Goel explained. But a robotic vacuum cleaning a hallway will have very different safety considerations compared to a robotic forklift handling heavy payloads in a warehouse loading dock.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had to reimagine and do a lot of foundational work to build a platform that is programmable, that gives all the hooks to the developers to actually define custom safety functions, but at the same time not break the underlying infrastructure that we built,\u201d Goel told Ars. \u201cBecause giving flexibility can come at the cost of losing some control over the stack.\u201d<\/p>\n
Custom safety functions are also necessary because robots may operate in complex, diverse environments.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you are a robot coming down an aisle at six miles per hour, your senses do not see what are the blind spots and what is coming around the corner,\u201d Gold said. \u201cWhat the robots do is almost come to a halt before the turn, because they really don\u2019t know what\u2019s happening in all these factories, warehouses and hospitals\u2014they\u2019re unstructured environments and things can come from anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the software side, the Halos operating system was designed to enable constant monitoring of \u201cevery hardware block\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-640233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}