Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/IROS.1997.655101
