Instrument Element Echo

The Lego Mindstorm Robot (codename: “T1″ ) has been tested outside in an open field. The Instrument Element of the robot was on a web-server, running on a linux. The test web-page was accessed using an iPhone.

Though the robot doesn’t perform well on grass or rough terrain because of physical limitations, but the instrument element architecture for the device is working quite well. Watch:

Full speed ahead!

Test using iPhone

A full documentation will be published soon in the Intrument Element wiki page.

Yesterday I found some spare time and I was far from an internet connection so I finally finalized an abstract representation of the Instrument Element. In the coming days I will try to make it more “logo style” so we can make substitute the default Mediawiki logo in our wiki.

Any comment is more than welcome but do ask me to explain it ;-).

P.S: if you are curious you can find few abstract representation of computer scientist research topics at this link

A few weeks ago we design a set of REST APIs in order to expose to the web the same APIs that we are now exposing using a Web Service Interface. We also submit this API proposal to the 4th International Workshop on Distributed Cooperative Laboratories: Instrumenting the Grid (INGRID 2009). 

The Paper has been accepted and in April the 1st we will presents our proposal. Soon we will update the wiki with the outcome of this event.

The Large Hadron Collider just started its first official beam. This is an historical event for the high-energy physics community and for the entire world. The LHC was built in the last decade to enable new generation of physics experiments. Last but not least, in order to analyze all the scientific data that are going to be produced the LHC Grid computing infrastructure was created.

We are wishing Good Luck to our Big Brother: the “big” Instrument Element! Witch it has been used as Run Control of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at LHC. The tiny Instrument Element Project (i.e. this project) has started as a simplification of our big brother! If you want to know more in this paper about Integration between instruments and grid is described how the “big” Instrument Element has been developed. While if you have some interest in building your own CMS experiment you may look at the suggested link.

The aim of the project is to create a tool for the integration between devices (such as sensor and probe) into the classical computation infrastructure like Cloud and Grid computing.  Moreover it is providing WEB APIs for controlling and monitoring a generic device. The present release is focused on Web Services using Axis1.4 but different technologies will be explored (REST, Axis2 etc etc).

This project is started as a simplification of part of the code that has been developed for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Experiment that is going to operate at CERN next month.  

For more information you can visit the project home page: http://instrumentelem.sourceforge.net/