Integrating hard and soft real-time communication in autonomous robot systems

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E83-B, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1067-1074

  Mock, Miphael ^a   Nett, Edgar ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIT   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Control system; Multiple access bus; Real time communication; Robotic system; TDMA

Indexed keywords

CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AUTONOMOUS ROBOT SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE ACCESS BUSSES; REAL TIME COMMUNICATION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0034187338     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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