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- Bordignon, Mirko, et al.
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An inexpensive, off-the-shelf platform for networked embedded robotics
- 2007
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In: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Robot communication and coordination, RoboComm '07. - Piscataway : IEEE press. - 9789639799080 ; , s. Art no: 45-
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Recent years have witnessed the proliferation of a new class of devices, commonly referred to as Networked Embedded Devices. Their increasingly low cost and small size make them suited for large scale sensing applications. Likewise, they could be appealing as a means to embed intelligent actuation capabilities into the environment, turning simple artifacts into networked robotic appliances. The currently existing devices, however, are not suited for this development. In this paper, we present the PEIS-Mote: an open, general, small-size and inexpensive sensor-actuator node especially suited for networked robotics, and built from commonly available off-the-shelf components. This platform can run a popular operating system for sensor networks, TinyOS, which makes it interoperable with most commercially available sensor nodes.
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- Bordignon, Mirko, et al.
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Seamless integration of robots and tiny embedded devices in a PEIS-ecology
- 2007
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In: IEEE/RSJ international conference on intelligent robots and systems, IROS 2007. - New York : IEEE. - 9781424409129 ; , s. 3101-3106
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The fields of autonomous robotics and ambient intelligence are converging toward the vision of smart robotic environments, in which tasks are performed via the cooperation of many networked robotic devices. To enable this vision, we need a common communication and cooperation model that can be shared between robotic devices at different scales, ranging from standard mobile robots to tiny embedded devices. Unfortunately, today's robot middlewares are too heavy to run on tiny devices, and middlewares for embedded devices are too simple to support the cooperation models needed by an autonomous smart environment. In this paper, we propose a middleware model which allows the seamless integration of standard robots and simple off-the-shelf embedded devices. Our middleware is suitable for building truly ubiquitous robotics applications, in which devices of very different scales and capabilities can cooperate in a uniform way. We discuss the principles and implementation of our middleware, and show an experiment in which a mobile robot, a commercial mote, and a custom-built mote cooperate in a home service scenario.
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