Miro - Middleware for mobile robot applications

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 493-497

  Utz, Hans ^a   Sablatnög, Stefan ^b   Enderle, Stefan ^c   Kraetzschmar, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b Temic Sprachverarbeitung GmbH   (Germany)

^c Advanced InfoData Systems GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

CORBA; Distributed systems; Middleware; Mobile robots; Multirobot applications; Object orientation; Robot control architectures

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MIDDLEWARE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; OPEN SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE; MULTIROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOT CONTROL ARCHITECTURE;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0036703356     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRA.2002.802930     Document Type: Article

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