Paper Info
Title
A Mobile Robot with Onboard Parallel Processor and Large Workspace Arm
Abstract
a. The MIT AI Lab's second mobile robot, MOBOT-2, has a number of unique design features. In this paper we describe two of them in detail. First, MOBOT-2 has an extremely cheap 32 processor distributed control system. The proces- sor system, called BARNACLE, runs asynchronously with no central locus of control. Unlike almost all other parallel processors this one has no expensive communications rout- ing network. The communication topology is determined by a distributed patch panel. All computing is done onboard the robot. Second, MOBOT-2 has an onboard arm. It is lightweight, but has an extremely large working volume. The arm is controlled by the parallel processor. Figure 1. MIT mobile robots a. MOBOT-1 b. Partially
Year
Venue
Keywords
1986
AAAI
distributed control system,mobile robot,locus of control
Field
DocType
Citations 
Workspace,Computer science,Parallel processing,Robot,Mobile robot,Embedded system,Patch panel,Distributed control system
Conference
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
12.95
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rodney Brooks135811623.37
Jon Connell2512.95
Anita Flynn3512.95