Real-Time Communication Systems for Small Autonomous Robots

ISBN-13: 9783836485210 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 108 str.

Stefan Krywult

Opis

Autonomous systems perform complex tasks to analyse and to react on their environment. One way to handle this complexity is distributing the functionality to several hardware modules. Even in small autonomous systems the predictability of the communication and the synchronization of all modules is vitally important. This book provides a survey of five protocols that play a major role in the automotive industry and in the domain of real-time communication: CAN, LIN, Flexray, TTP/C, and TTP/A. The protocols are compared and analysed regarding their suitability for small autonomous systems. Following the results of this investigation, TTP/A is ported to the hardware of the Tinyphoon robot, a research platform for small autonomous and distributed systems. On the basis of the outcome of this case study enhancements and adoptions of TTP/A are proposed. To address the diversity of hardware a general concept of making TTP/A more portable is elaborated.

O autorze

Krywult Stefan Stefan Krywult received a Master's degree in Computer Science in 2006. He specialized in embedded systems and real-time communication. At the FIRA RoboWorld Cup in Dortmund he led the robot soccer team RSC Austria. Currently, he is involved in the development of a low-power container monitoring system at the Vienna University of Technology.