Concepts of a Modular System Architecture for Distributed Robotic Systems

• Published in: Computers (Basel) Vol. 8; no. 1; p. 25
• Main Authors: Jahn, Uwe, Wolff, Carsten, Schulz, Peter
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 14.03.2019
• Subjects: Actuators; Architecture; cloud computing; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Controllers; distributed systems; health monitoring; mobile robots; Modular design; Modular systems; Operating systems; operator–controller module (OCM); Real time; Robotics; Robots; Sensors; single-board computer (SBC); Software; State machines; system architectures

Modern robots often use more than one processing unit to solve the requirements in robotics. Robots are frequently designed in a modular manner to fulfill the possibility to be extended for future tasks. The use of multiple processing units leads to a distributed system within one single robot. Ther...