ASEBA: A modular architecture for event-based control of complex robots

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 321-329

  Magnenat, Stéphane ^a   Rétornaz, Philippe ^a   Bonani, Michael ^a   Longchamp, Valentin ^a   Mondada, Francesco ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Intelligent actuators; intelligent sensors; microcontrollers; mobile robots

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT; MICROCONTROLLERS; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULI; EVENT-BASED CONTROL; INTELLIGENT ACTUATOR; INTELLIGENT SENSORS; MODULAR ARCHITECTURES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; REAL TIME MONITORING; SENSOR AND ACTUATORS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 85027949419     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2010.2042722     Document Type: Article

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