A new HLA-based distributed control architecture for agricultural teams of robots in hybrid applications with real and simulated devices or environments

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 4385-4400

  Nebot, Patricio ^a   Torres Sospedra, Joaquín ^a   Martínez, Rafael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agricultural robotics; Control architecture; HLA based system; Hybrid systems; Improved simulation system

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS; AGRICULTURAL ROBOTICS; CONTROL ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL ARCHITECTURES; HLA-BASED SYSTEM; IMPLICIT COMMUNICATIONS; JAVA AGENT DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK; SIMULATION SYSTEMS;

AGRICULTURE; HYBRID SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; ROBOTICS; SILICATE MINERALS;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; ROBOTICS;

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84871095034     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s110404385     Document Type: Article

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