12 Result(s)
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Combining Service-Oriented Computing with Embedded Systems - A Robotics Case Study
In this paper, we introduce an approach for combining embedded systems with Service-oriented Computing techniques based on a concrete application scenario from the robotics domain. Our proposed Service-oriente...
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An Infrastructure for Flexible Runtime Reconfigurable Multi-microcontroller Systems
Embedded systems in robotics or mechatronics need flexibility since they are working in dynamic environments. We consider an embedded modular multi-microcontroller system. Each module includes a microcontrolle...
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Preface
IFIP Working Group 10.2 was pleased to sponsor DIPES 2010, the IFIP Conference on Distributed and Parallel Embedded Systems. The conference was held in Brisbane, Australia during September 20-22, 2010 as part ...
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Integrating Emotional Competence into Man-Machine Collaboration
Emotional competence plays a crucial role in human communication and hence should also be considered for improving cooperation between humans and robots. In this paper we present an architecture and its realiz...
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Hierarchically Distributing Embedded Systems for Improved Autonomy
Distribution of functionality among nodes is a contemporary research issue for embedded systems, e.g. in the field of autonomous mobile robot groups. In such groups, the concept of distribution is mainly used ...
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Measurement of Robot Similarity to Determine the Best Demonstrator for Imitation in a Group of Heterogeneous Robots
Imitation is not only a powerful means to drastically downsize the exploration space when learning behavior. It also helps to align the learning efforts of a robot group towards a common goal. However, one pre...
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The Paderkicker Team: Autonomy in Realtime Environments
The Paderkickers are a robot soccer team that makes heavy use of automotive technology like C167 micro-controllers or communication over CAN bus. All sensor data is processed on these decentralized embedded no...
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Trading off Impact and Mutation of Knowledge by Cooperatively Learning Robots
We present a socially inspired approach that allows agents in Multi-Agent Systems to speed up their own learning process through communication. Thereby, they are able to trade off impact of knowledge by mutati...
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Evolving Agent Societies Through Imitation Controlled by Artificial Emotions
An architecture is proposed that combines a simple learning method with one of the most natural evaluation systems: imitation controlled by emotions. Using this architecture agents develop behavioral clusters ...
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Learning Action Sequences Through Imitation in Behavior Based Architectures
In this paper a new architecture for learning action sequences through imitation is proposed. Imitation occurs by means of observing and applying sequences of basic behaviors. When an agent has observed anothe...
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Entwurf von autonomen Systemen mit High Level Petrinetzen
In diesem Papier wird vorgestellt, wie autonome Systeme auf der Basis von erweiterten Pr/T-Netzen entworfen werden können. Die vorgestellte Methodik wurde ursprünglich für eingebettete Realzeitsysteme konzipie...
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The re-configurable delay-insensitive Flysig architecture
This article describes a new re-configurable architecture design suitable for high performance signal processing applications. The main benefits beside re-configurability are high computation performance, robu...
