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A hardware/software architecture for the control of self reconfigurable robots

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Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 6

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Self-reconfigurable robots are built on a set of elementary modules. We focus here on a part of the realization of such system: the control system. This control is based on a processing unit developed around a CPU + FPGA computing system communicating through bluetooth. On this hardware architecture we build a software architecture that we describe and discuss the advantages and limitations.

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  1. Université de Bretagne Sud Lorient, France

    Claude Guéganno & Dominique Duhaut

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  1. Claude Guéganno
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  1. LAAS CNRS, 7 Avenue du Colonel Roche, 31077, Toulouse Cedex 4, France

    Rachid Alami Ph.D. (Senior Scientist) & Raja Chatila Ph.D. (Senior Scientist) (Senior Scientist) &  (Senior Scientist)

  2. Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-8568, Japan

    Hajime Asama Ph.D. (Professor) (Professor)

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Guéganno, C., Duhaut, D. (2007). A hardware/software architecture for the control of self reconfigurable robots. In: Alami, R., Chatila, R., Asama, H. (eds) Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 6. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-35873-2_2

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