Hierarchical distributed architectures for autonomous mobile robots: A case study

IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 973-980

  Azevedo, José Luís ^a   Cunha, Bernardo ^a   Almeida, Luís ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATION SYSTEMS; AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTS; CASE STUDIES; COMPLEX CONTROL; CONTROLLER-AREA NETWORK; DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURES; DISTRIBUTED HARDWARE; DISTRIBUTED SENSING; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; GLOBAL COORDINATION; HARDWARE ARCHITECTURES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MICRO-CONTROLLER; MUTUAL INTERFERENCE; PORTUGAL; SOCCER ROBOTS; VISION SENSING;

ARCHITECTURE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; CONTROL THEORY; COORDINATION REACTIONS; FACTORY AUTOMATION; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MIXING; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SCADA SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY;

COMPUTER HARDWARE;

EID: 47849085902     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EFTA.2007.4416889     Document Type: Conference Paper

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