The RoboCup F-180 league dedicated system design for performance analyses of distributed embedded systems

We present our work in progress for a new system architecture of the RoboCup F-180 small size league to analyse the performance of distributed embedded systems. Our system design allows shifting the autonomy from the centralized system to each of the soccer robots for locally execution of the strategy algorithm and autonomous action commands. The new system design dedicates the master host system as a global vision system for object recognition and broadcasting coordinates via WLAN. Since the acting soccer robots are not remote controlled anymore like in previous robot soccer systems in the F-180 league, we designed a new architecture with an embedded system on board with respect to the limitation of the robots dimension. The robots´ embedded system has capabilities to process communication via WLAN and execute strategy applications in a fast way. Furthermore local sensors are implemented to assist the robots to recognize environment characteristics. Our architecture is aimed to conduct measurements based on hard-and software solutions and allows easily monitoring and evaluating the performance of distributed embedded systems in dynamic scenarios. The results should allow building simulation models for different system parameters to estimate response times in varying scenarios.