The robotics bus: A local communications bus for robots

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5609, Issue , 2004, Pages 155-163

  Gomez Ibanez, Daniel ^a   Stump, Ethan ^a   Grocholsky, Benjamin ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a   Taylor, Camillo J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Browser; Controller area network; Modular robotics; Reliability; Serial bus

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); RELIABILITY; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; ROBOTICS; SENSORS; STANDARDIZATION; WEB BROWSERS;

CONTROLLER AREA NETWORK; MODULAR ROBOTICS; SERIAL BUS; TROUBLESHOOTING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 17644423112     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.571476     Document Type: Conference Paper

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