Performance analysis of an adaptive medium access control protocol for robot communication

Author

Arai, Junpei ; Koyama, Akio ; Barolli, Leonard

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Control Eng., Yamagata Coll. of Ind. & Technol., Japan

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

20-22 July 2005

Firstpage

210

Abstract

In autonomous distributed robot systems, many robots cooperate together to carry out many difficult tasks that single robot can not realize. But, in order to cooperate together the robots should communicate with each other. Therefore, the communication among robots is very important problem to be solved. In this paper, we propose an adaptive reservation-time division multiple access (AR-TDMA) medium access control protocol. We carried out computer simulation to evaluate the performance of proposed method. The simulation results show that the proposed protocol has better scalability characteristics and object transportation time compared with a conventional protocol.

Keywords

access protocols; cooperative systems; multi-robot systems; AR-TDMA; adaptive reservation-time division multiple access protocol; autonomous distributed robot system; computer simulation; medium access control protocol; object transportation time; robot communication; scalability characteristic; Access protocols; Adaptive control; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Media Access Protocol; Performance analysis; Programmable control; Robots; Scalability; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2005. Proceedings. 11th International Conference on

ISSN

1521-9097

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2281-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPADS.2005.225

Filename

1531129