Reusable architecture and tools for teams of lightweight heterogeneous robots

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 1, Issue PART 1, 2006, Pages 51-56

  Friedmann, Martin ^a   Kiener, Jutta ^a   Petters, Sebastian ^a   Thomas, Dirk ^a   Von Stryk, Oskar ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cooperation of heterogeneous robots; Lightweight mobile autonomous robots; Reusable robotic software; Robot simulation; Tools for debugging and monitoring

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MACHINE DESIGN; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; PROGRAMMABLE ROBOTS;

HETEROGENEOUS ROBOT TEAMS; HETEROGENEOUS ROBOTS; MOBILE AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS; OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN; REUSABLE ARCHITECTURES; ROBOT CONTROL SOFTWARE; ROBOT SIMULATIONS; ROBOTIC SOFTWARES;

VISUAL SERVOING;

EID: 80051511880     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20061002-2-br-4906.00010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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