Architectural paradigms for robotics applications

Advanced Engineering Informatics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 4-13

  Amoretti, Michele ^a   Reggiani, Monica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC CONCEPTS; COMMUNITY IS; COMPONENT BASED; CONCURRENT SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; EVENT SYNCHRONIZATION; HETEROGENEOUS SOFTWARE; INTERPROCESS COMMUNICATION; ITS ARCHITECTURE; OBJECT ORIENTED; RESEARCH RESULTS; ROBOTIC ARCHITECTURES; ROBOTICS APPLICATIONS; SERVICE ORIENTED;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 72149084626     PISSN: 14740346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2009.08.004     Document Type: Article

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