Title :
A societal architecture for robotic applications
Author :
Duffy, N.D. ; Herd, J.T.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh, UK
fDate :
11/1/1991 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A societal architecture is one in which the overall operation of a system is achieved by many (a society of) agents. The application of this type of architecture to the control of a multi-sensor multi-robot assembly workcell provides a structure in which the subsystems required to control collaborating robots equipped with sensing and error detection/correction capabilities can be integrated in a seamless manner. The architecture has been developed concurrently with a novel hardware system which allows real-time operation to be achieved
Keywords :
assembling; error correction; error detection; industrial robots; collaborating robots; error correction; error detection; multi-agent system; multi-sensor multi-robot assembly workcell; real-time operation; robotic applications; societal architecture;
Journal_Title :
Computing & Control Engineering Journal
