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- From: man@labrea.zko.dec.com (Richard Man)
- Subject: Paper on subsumption based multitasking kernel available
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.150846.16683@e2big.mko.dec.com>
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- Reply-To: man@labrea.zko.dec.com (Richard Man)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 15:08:46 GMT
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- I have just finished my paper "Subsumption architecture-based realtime
- multitasking kernel for programming autonomous robots," to be presented this
- November at the SPIE Conference on Cooperative Intelligent in Space III. If you
- are interested in a copy of the paper in postscript format, please send me a
- note and I will mail it to you.
-
- From the abstract:
-
- This paper describes a real-time multitasking kernel called BRET
- (Behavior-based Robot ExecuTive) that incorporates subsumption
- architecture-style communication facilities. The result is a
- portable, flexible system for building control software for
- behavior-based autonomous robots, which operate well in dynamic
- environments, including extraterrestrial areas. Unlike "pure"
- subsumption architecture implementations, this system does not
- exclude the use of traditional programming methodologies or
- impose artificial structures on the robot control system. Thus,
- traditional methods such as real-time data processing, searching
- or map making, as well as teleoperated commands can be
- integrated with the behavior-based modules.
-
- Two autonomous rovers named Ripley I and Ripley II have been
- built to test the software system. They were designed to use
- modified off-the-shelf hardware components in order to reduce
- construction and debugging time. Their control systems are
- described at the end of this paper.
- --
- - Richard F. Man (man@labrea.zko.dec.com)
- "This Dust Has No Mirror"
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-