Development of a distributed multiple mobile robot control system for automatic highway maintenance and construction

Author

Feng, Xin ; Velinsky, Steven A.

Author_Institution

Adv. Highway Maintenance & Constr. Technol. Res. Center, California Univ., Davis, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

3-6 Aug 1997

Firstpage

489

Abstract

The distributed control system employs a Windows network, which consists of a host computer and several robot controllers. The robots are tethered mobile robots designed for automating highway maintenance and construction. The host computer, with live video overlay and animation, provides the operator with an integrated and interactive monitoring and control interface. The robot controllers are embedded on mobile robots and are designed to be independent to the host computer. By applying the newest PC and embedding technologies, the system has high flexibility and fault-tolerance for a variety of highway maintenance operations. Both the hardware design and software development are described

Keywords

civil engineering; distributed control; maintenance engineering; mobile robots; real-time systems; Windows network; automatic highway maintenance; distributed multiple mobile robot control system; embedding technologies; fault-tolerance; interactive monitoring; robot controllers; tethered mobile robots; Automated highways; Automatic control; Computer interfaces; Computer networks; Control systems; Distributed computing; Distributed control; Mobile robots; Robot control; Robotics and automation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1997. Proceedings of the 40th Midwest Symposium on

Conference_Location

Sacramento, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3694-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSCAS.1997.666180

Filename

666180