Riding the Blue Wave: Building Autonomous Intelligence on the Edge #01
Episode 1: Motivation
Feb 6, 202613 min read45
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Autonomous Intelligence on the Edge: Optimising performance on ARM chips.
This series documents the design and engineering of real-time autonomous perception systems on edge devices, especially cranking out maximum performance on ARM chips. It also documents my experience in winning the bharat AI SOC challenge which was one of the main motivations in building this.
Riding the Blue Wave: Building Autonomous Intelligence on the Edge #02
Episode 2: System Architecture, Designing a Real-Time Edge Perception Pipeline
Mar 29, 202616 min read2
Riding the Blue Wave: Building Autonomous Intelligence on the Edge #03
Episode 3: Designing for CPU-only Inference — squeezing real-time perception out of an ARM chip with no GPU.
Aug 3, 202612 min readRiding the Blue Wave: Building Autonomous Intelligence on the Edge #04
Episode 4: Asynchronous Pipelines Without Chaos — threads, cores, lock-free buffers, and the day I caught my own "parallel" pipeline running sequentially.
Aug 3, 202614 min readRiding the Blue Wave: Building Autonomous Intelligence on the Edge #05
Episode 5: Temporal Stability vs Raw Confidence — why a steady, unremarkable detection beats a brilliant one that flashes for a single frame.
Aug 3, 202611 min readRiding the Blue Wave: Building Autonomous Intelligence on the Edge #06
Episode 6: Why Most "Real-Time" Demos Aren't Actually Real-Time — a confession about my own benchmarks, and how to profile honestly on ARM.
Aug 3, 202612 min read