[FTC]: New Android Control System

[DavisDad]

So I'm scratching my head over how to sort through all this information and figure out what we need to know for FTC...

What I know:

1. New control system based on cell phones using Qualcomm Snapdragon (410 MSM8916) processor (SoC)
2. The MSM8916 uses the Cortex A53, whis is an "ARM family of instruction set architectures".
3. The MSM8916 is used by cell phone manufacturers as the brain. The ZTE Speed has these features.
4. FTC 2015/16 will use two (2) ZTE type phones with FTC specified Modern Robotics hardware/software (H/S) to control the robot. One phone will be used for driver control and the other as the robot controller.
5. The robot controller will talk to the FTC H/S through the phone's USB port. Known H/S are: "Power Module", "Servo Motor Controller", "DC Motor Controller", "Legacy Module" & "Advanced Sensor Module" (see schematic)
6. Communications between H/S is all USB except the Legacy Module which takes USB and converts to NXT type I2C networking data.
7. The Sensor Module will allow use of "standard off the shelf sensors".

What I don't know:

1. How the Modern Robotics Inc. (MRI) components control information between the ZTE type phone and the robot's functions.
2. Will the MRI motor and servo controllers be the only allowed devices, or will we be able to use other robotics companies' products?
3. For off the shelf sensors, what are the signal inputs? They look like 3-pin analog.
4. Will we be able to use components like image processors & "sensor fusion" devices with their own pre-processing?

I guess we'll have to wait for the MRI specs for firmware to know.