On the coordination of autonomous systems

Author

Mock, Michael ; Nett, Edgar

Author_Institution

Nat. Res. Center for Inf. Technol., St. Augustin, Germany

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

5

Lastpage

9

Abstract

There is a general trend in designing distributed control systems to give an increasing amount of autonomy to the individual nodes of such systems. Two interrelated system layers must be considered when autonomous systems have to be coordinated under real-time constraints: the distributed programming paradigm and the communication layer. We analyze current trends and options, and give an approach for an integrated architecture

Keywords

computerised control; control system synthesis; distributed control; distributed object management; distributed programming; real-time systems; software architecture; autonomous systems coordination; communication layer; distributed control systems design; distributed programming paradigm; integrated architecture; interrelated system layers; real-time constraints; system nodes; Automatic control; Communication system control; Control systems; Intelligent robots; Level control; Microcontrollers; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems; Robotics and automation; Service robots;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems, 1999. WORDS 1999 Fall. Proceedings. Fifth International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0616-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WORDSF.1999.842326

Filename

842326