PpPDC communication framework - A new tool for distributed robotics

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5325 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 195-206

  Polaków, Grzegorz ^a   Metzger, Mieczyslaw ^a  

^a SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Communication infrastructure; Distributed robotics; Middleware for robotics; Producer distributor consumer; Real time ethernet

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COSTS; ETHERNET; MIDDLEWARE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

COMMUNICATION FEATURES; COMMUNICATION FRAMEWORK; COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE; DISTRIBUTED ROBOTICS; INTELLIGENT MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; LABVIEW GRAPHICAL PROGRAMMING; PRODUCER-DISTRIBUTOR-CONSUMER; REAL TIME ETHERNET;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 58149089107     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89076-8_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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