Title
Real-Time Communication in Autonomous Robot Systems
Abstract
Designing control and robotic systems as autonomous decentralized systems introduces a new degree of flexibility in the manufacturing and in the application of such systems. This flexibility is required for the systems to work in environments that are not totally predictable and that can change dynamically. In this paper, we present a new concept for real-time communication that supports this flexibility while still preserving real-time guarantees for hard real-time communication. The concept is designed to work on multiple-access busses. In particular, we consider its application on wireless local area networks and field-busses. The concept addresses requirements of hard-real time, soft real-time and non real-time communication. For this, we extend the TDMA (time-division multiple-access) approach for time-triggered hard-real time communication by the concept of shared channels that support event-triggered communication and coexist with hard real-time channels. A first implementation of concept has been carried out in the context of the CAN-bus.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1109/ISADS.1999.838363
ISADS
Keywords
Field
DocType
control system,hard real-time channel,multiple-access bus,concept addresses requirement,robotic system,non real-time communication,hard real-time communication,real-time communication,real-time guarantee,new concept,tdma,hard-real time,autonomous robot systems,event-triggered communication,time-triggered hard-real time communication,decentralized system,real time,information technology,manufacturing,wireless local area network,distributed processing,can bus,robot control,robots,time division multiple access,control systems,scheduling,real time systems
Wireless,Computer science,Communication channel,Computer network,Real-time computing,Local area network,Control system,Time division multiple access,Robot,Autonomous robot,Real-time communication,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-0137-0
15
2.37
References 
Authors
9
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael Mock117525.30
Edgar Nett234554.29