Title :
Automated navigation and mobile vehicle control using wireless sensor network technology
Author :
Young, Kar-Keung D. ; Ou, Yong Quan ; Feng, Jun Tao ; Ou, Zhi Liang ; Cai, Lun Hui ; Cheng, Ken Kin Man ; Kam On Ho, J. ; Tsang, Timmy T M
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Hong Kong
Abstract :
This paper introduces a novel concept for automated navigation and control of a mobile platform. It utilizes an ad-hoc mobile wireless sensor network to provide navigational information to the mobile platform embedded control system. The embedded controller is realized with an ARM9 SOC based single board computer, with real time, multi-thread software implementation using a real time Linux operating system framework. We have repeatedly tested the automated navigation and control concept on a wheel based mobile platform in an indoor environment, and found the performance meeting our original design goals.
Keywords :
Linux; embedded systems; multi-threading; navigation; vehicles; wireless sensor networks; ARM9 SOC; Linux operating system; ad-hoc mobile wireless sensor network; automated control; automated navigation; embedded control system; mobile vehicle control; multithread software; Automatic control; Control systems; Embedded computing; Embedded software; Linux; Navigation; Operating systems; Real time systems; Vehicles; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Technology, 2008. ICIT 2008. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1705-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1706-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICIT.2008.4608536
