A functionally distributed responsive micro controller for distributed real-time processing

Author

Yamasaki, Nobuyuki ; Matsui, Toshihiro

Author_Institution

Electrotech. Lab., Min. of Int. Trade & Ind., Ibaraki, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

7-11 Sep 1997

Firstpage

793

Abstract

We propose a functionally distributed responsive (reactive in real-time) microcontroller for distributed real-time processing, which can control personal robots, home automation, office automation, etc. A responsive controller is composed of a mother module and an I/O card customizable for its specific application. A common mother module is composed of a processor, a memory system, an I/O card bus interface for its daughter card, and high-speed real-time links called responsive links. In order to realize hard real-time communication needed for robot control, sensing, etc., a responsive link consists of a pair of full-duplex data lines and two-way event lines. Many kinds of systems can be flexibly composed by connecting any number of the responsive controllers using the responsive links

Keywords

distributed processing; microcontrollers; network interfaces; real-time systems; I/O card bus interface; common mother module; customizable I/O card; distributed real-time processing; full-duplex data lines; functionally distributed responsive microcontroller; home automation; memory system; office automation; personal robots; processor; real-time communication; responsive links; two-way event lines; Automatic control; Distributed control; Home automation; Joining processes; Microcontrollers; Office automation; Process control; Real time systems; Robot control; Robotics and automation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1997. IROS '97., Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

Conference_Location

Grenoble

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4119-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IROS.1997.655101

Filename

655101