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Distributed Real-time Computing in Autonomous Robots using Time-Triggered and Message-Triggered Objects (TMOs)
Gyeongju, Korea April 24-April 26
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Jan O. Biermeyer, University of California, Irvine, USA
Vason P. Srini, Datafluxsystems Inc., USA
Bernd Kleinjohann, University of Paderborn, Germany
Distributed real-time computing is one of the enabling technologies in establishing a team of autonomous robots. A team of soccer playing robots, Paderkicker, contains many computing nodes handling environment perception, artificial intelligence, team coordination, autonomous actuation, and interactions with external entities such as a remote server. Robots must act with varying degrees of autonomy in real-time.

The Time-triggered Message-triggered Object (TMO) programming scheme offers a high-level high-precision approach to programming of distributed real-time computing operations. The TMO programmer can apply deadlines to method executions and result-arrivals in a straightforward way. He is thus relieved from dealing with low-level resource allocation details and can show considerably increased productivity.

This paper describes a TMO structuring approach for constructing teams of autonomous robots. A TMO network architecture is described for the Paderkicker team.

Citation:
Jan O. Biermeyer, Vason P. Srini, Bernd Kleinjohann, "Distributed Real-time Computing in Autonomous Robots using Time-Triggered and Message-Triggered Objects (TMOs)," isorc, pp.245-252, Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Object and Component-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC'06), 2006
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