Fault-Tolerant and System-Wide Communication for Metamorphic
Robots

D 2023

Fault-Tolerant and System-Wide Communication for Metamorphic Robots

MRÁZEK, Jan, Vladimír CHLUP and Jiří BARNAT

Basic information

Original name

Fault-Tolerant and System-Wide Communication for Metamorphic Robots

Authors

MRÁZEK, Jan (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Vladimír CHLUP (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Jiří BARNAT (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Auckland, New Zealand, 2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), p. 1-8, 8 pp. 2023

Publisher

IEEE

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

electronic version available online

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14330/23:00131781

Organization unit

Faculty of Informatics

ISBN

979-8-3503-2069-5

ISSN

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CASE56687.2023.10260364

Keywords in English

Building blockes; Complex configuration; Fault system; Fault-tolerant; Metamorphic robots; Reconfigurable; Robotic community; Robotic systems; Self-assembling robots; Uniform scale

Abstract

V originále

One of the future directions the robotic community deals with is the vision of reconfigurable and self-assembling robots. Such robots can assemble themselves into more complex configurations to take the shape that suits their mission the most. An exciting concept is a metamorphic robotic system in which all the modules serving as building blocks are uniform and small-scale. In such a system, the modules must be able to connect and disconnect from other modules dynamically using a connector that provides the modules with data and power connection on top of the physical binding. The limited physical size and computation resources prevent the usage of the standard existing network and power interfaces. While some solutions to connectors of metamorphic robots have been introduced at the hardware level, the software solutions are still quite incomplete. In this paper, we address a piece of the software part. We present an efficient and system-wide solution to inter-module communication. Moreover, we demonstrate and evaluate our solution on an existing metamorphic robotic platform.

Links

EF16_019/0000822, research and development project

Name: Centrum excelence pro kyberkriminalitu, kyberbezpečnost a ochranu kritických informačních infrastruktur

MUNI/A/1081/2022, interní kód MU

Name: Modelování, analýza a verifikace (2023)

Investor: Masaryk University

Citovat

MRÁZEK, Jan, Vladimír CHLUP and Jiří BARNAT. Fault-Tolerant and System-Wide Communication for Metamorphic Robots. Online. In 2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). Auckland, New Zealand: IEEE, 2023, p. 1-8. ISBN 979-8-3503-2069-5. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CASE56687.2023.10260364.

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MRÁZEK, Jan, Vladimír CHLUP and Jiří BARNAT. Fault-Tolerant and System-Wide Communication for Metamorphic Robots. Online. In \textit{2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)}. Auckland, New Zealand: IEEE, 2023, p.~1-8. ISBN~979-8-3503-2069-5. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CASE56687.2023.10260364.

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