A new real-time message scheduling tool for control networks

Industrial Robot

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 188-194

  Naughton, Margaret ^a   Heffernan, Donal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Control networks; Controllers; Real time scheduling; Robotics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING;

CONTROL NETWORKS; REAL TIME SCHEDULING; TIME-TRIGGERRED CONTROL;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 34249084940     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439910710738818     Document Type: Article

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