TOPICS: A modular software architecture for high-latency communication channels

Author

Murphy, Colleen

Author_Institution

Bluefin Robot. Corp., Quincy, MA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

23-27 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents TOPICS, a production software architecture for communicating between unmanned maritime vehicles over high-latency channels, including acoustic and Iridium Short Burst Data (SBD) modems. The architecture is modular and extensible to facilitate development of mission-specific capabilities in addition to standard vehicle behaviors. TOPICS supports multiple redundant communication devices per vehicle, low-level modem abstraction for “backseat driver” applications, and file transfer when supported by the modem.

Keywords

autonomous underwater vehicles; modems; packet radio networks; software architecture; telerobotics; underwater acoustic communication; wireless channels; SBD modem; TOPICS; backseat driver applications; high latency channel; high latency communication channel; mission-specific capability; modem abstraction; modular production software architecture; redundant communication device; short burst data; standard vehicle behavior; teleoperation via packetized and intermittent communication subsystems; unmanned maritime vehicle; Acoustics; Hardware; Modems; Physical layer; Software; Telemetry; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Oceans - San Diego, 2013

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Type

conf

Filename

6741225