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We describe a software architecture used to control the operations of a group of miniature mobile robots called Scouts. Due to their small size, the Scouts rely on a proxy processing scheme where they receive commands and transmit sensor information over RF channels to a controlling workstation. Because the bandwidth of these channels is limited, a scheduling system has been developed that allows the robots to share the bandwidth. Experimental results are described.
Material based upon work supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Microsystems Technology Office (Distributed Robotics), ARPA Order No. G155, Program Code No. 8H20, issued by DARPA/CMD under Contract #MDA972-98-C-0008.
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Rybski, P.E., Stoeter, S.A., Gini, M., Papanikolopoulos, N. (2002). Programming and Controlling the Operations of a Team of Miniature Robots. In: Schultz, A.C., Parker, L.E. (eds) Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2376-3_7
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