A new MAC protocol for robot communication and its performance evaluation

Author

Arai, Junpei ; Koyama, Akio ; Barolli, Leonard

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Control Eng., Yamagata Coll. of Ind. & Technol., Japan

fYear

2005

fDate

6-10 June 2005

Firstpage

743

Lastpage

748

Abstract

In autonomous distributed robot systems, many robots cooperate together to carry out many difficult tasks that single robot cannot realize. But, in order to cooperate together the robots should communicate with each other. Therefore, the communication among robots is very important problem to be solved. In this paper, we propose and evaluate an adaptive reservation-time division multiple access (AR-TDMA) medium access control protocol. We carried out computer simulation to evaluate the performance of proposed protocol. The simulation results show that the proposed protocol has better transmission characteristics compared with a conventional protocol.

Keywords

digital simulation; distributed processing; mobile robots; performance evaluation; time division multiple access; AR-TDMA; MAC protocol; adaptive reservation-time division multiple access medium access control protocol; autonomous distributed robot systems; computer simulation; performance evaluation; robot communication; Access protocols; Control engineering; Educational institutions; Media Access Protocol; Medical robotics; Mobile communication; Multiaccess communication; Robot sensing systems; Service robots; Time division multiple access;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, 2005. 25th IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2328-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDCSW.2005.16

Filename

1437255