Title :
DRS operating primitives based on distributed mutual exclusion
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Eng., California Univ., Riverside, CA, USA
Abstract :
Distributed mutual exclusion (DME) is an important concept in any multi-agent systems, including the distributed robotic system (DRS). Several basic DME algorithms employing sign-board as their inter-robot communication mechanism are presented. It is shown that a large number of DRS operating primitives, such as leader finding, dynamic ordering of robots and events, job assignment, and resource sharing, can be effectively implemented with algorithms based on DME
Keywords :
software agents; DME algorithms; DRS; distributed mutual exclusion; distributed robotic system; dynamic ordering; inter-robot communication mechanism; job assignment; leader finding; multi-agent systems; resource sharing; sign-board; Clocks; Distributed control; Intelligent robots; Manufacturing automation; Mobile robots; Orbital robotics; Power system reliability; Resource management; Robot sensing systems; Robotics and automation;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Robots and Systems '93, IROS '93. Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Yokohama
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0823-9
DOI :
10.1109/IROS.1993.583316
