Performance evaluation of a distributed integrative architecture for robotics

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dc.contributor.authorKloss, Guy K.
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-20T23:47:33Z
dc.date.available2013-05-20T23:47:33Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstractThe eld of robotics employs a vast amount of coupled sub-systems. These need to interact cooperatively and concurrently in order to yield the desired results. Some hybrid algorithms also require intensive cooperative interactions internally. The architecture proposed lends it- self amenable to problem domains that require rigorous calculations that are usually impeded by the capacity of a single machine, and incompatibility issues between software computing elements. Implementations are abstracted away from the physical hardware for ease of de- velopment and competition in simulation leagues. Monolithic developments are complex, and the desire for decoupled architectures arises. Decoupling also lowers the threshold for using distributed and parallel resources. The ability to re-use and re-combine components on de- mand, therefore is essential, while maintaining the necessary degree of interaction. For this reason we propose to build software components on top of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) using Web Services. An additional bene t is platform independence regarding both the operating system and the implementation language. The robot soccer platform as well as the associated simulation leagues are the target domain for the development. Furthermore are machine vision and remote process control related portions of the architecture currently in development and testing for industrial environments. We provide numerical data based on the Python frameworks ZSI and SOAPpy undermining the suitability of this approach for the eld of robotics. Response times of signi cantly less than 50 ms even for fully interpreted, dynamic languages provides hard information showing the feasibility of Web Services based SOAs even in time critical robotic applications.en
dc.identifier.citationKloss, G.K. (2007), Performance evaluation of a distributed integrative architecture for robotics, Research Letters in the Information and Mathematical Sciences, 11, 61-70en
dc.identifier.issn1175-2777
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/4492
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherMassey Universityen
dc.subjectRoboticsen
dc.subjectMachine visionen
dc.subjectArtificial intelligenceen
dc.subjectService oriented architectureen
dc.subjectDistributed computingen
dc.titlePerformance evaluation of a distributed integrative architecture for roboticsen
dc.typeArticleen
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