Object oriented design of the Liverpool Telescope Robotic Control System

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4848, Issue , 2002, Pages 443-454

  Fraser, Stephen N ^a   Steel, Iain A ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent; Intelligent control system; Layered architecture; Robotic

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; DECISION MAKING; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; ROBOTICS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

ENVIRONMENT MONITORING ARCHITECTURE; JAVA MESSAGE SYSTEM; LIVERPOOL TELESCOPE; TASK MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURE;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0036994795     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461333     Document Type: Conference Paper

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