Multi-Robot Systems and Distributed Intelligence: The ETHNOS Approach to Heterogeneity

Sgorbissa, Antonio

doi:10.5772/4733

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“…Indeed, a dedicated distributed real‐time operating system and a dedicated network communication protocol allow for robust communication also in a noisy wireless network. ETHNOS achieves soft real‐time compliances, being a real‐time extension to the standard Linux kernel …”

Section: Multirobot Software Architecturesmentioning

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“…Here two aspects have been considered: the necessity of having real‐time scheduling functionalities (dealing with rapidly changing and complex environments) and the advantages coming from middlewares that offer management tools and high‐level robotic algorithms (e.g., for the coordination of the robots in the swarm). Since existing multirobot software architectures do not allow to achieve these functionalities together (Table ), within the project the ETHNOS environment was chosen (although OROCOS could have been also a suitable choice) as a multi‐agent framework, given its real‐time characteristics and the modular structure, and it has been integrated with the ROS middleware. Indeed, a ROS‐ETHNOS interface has been developed.…”

Section: The Prisma Project: Robots and Autonomous Systems In Emergenmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Post‐disaster assessment with unmanned aerial vehicles: A survey on practical implementations and research approaches

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2017

Journal of Field Robotics

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In this paper, we provide a review of the principal aspects related to search & rescue (SAR) with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), with particular interest in the phase of post-disaster assessment (PDA). Some areas of interest related to this topic have been chosen for the analysis: the aerial platforms used in the field, multirobot software architectures, onboard sensors and simultaneous localization and mapping approaches, terrain coverage algorithms, autonomous navigation techniques, and human-swarm interfaces. All these aspects have been analyzed with respect to the state-of-the-art, and also in relation to the project PRISMA, which focuses on the development and deployment of robots and autonomous systems that can operate in emergency scenarios, with a specific reference to monitoring and real-time intervention

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Section: Multirobot Software Architecturesmentioning

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Section: The Prisma Project: Robots and Autonomous Systems In Emergenmentioning

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Post‐disaster assessment with unmanned aerial vehicles: A survey on practical implementations and research approaches

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Sgorbissa

2017

Journal of Field Robotics

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“…Indeed, a dedicated network communication protocol, within the distributed operating system, allows a robust communication even in noisy wireless network. The framework achieves soft real-time compliance being a real-time extension to the standard Linux kernel [14]. The reference architecture of the ETHNOS operating system is based on the concept of expert, a concurrent agent responsible for a specific deliberative or reactive behavior.…”

Section: The Asctec Multirotors and The Ethnos Frameworkmentioning

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The Project PRISMA: Post-Disaster Assessment with UAVs

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2017

Intelligent Autonomous Systems 14

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“…team formations). ETHNOS (acronym of Expert Tribe in a Hybrid Network Operating System) is a framework which allows to design distributed robotic applications (Sgorbissa, 2006). ETHNOS is composed of a set of services and characteristics that suit some tasks of mobile robotics: a distributed real-time operating system, a dedicated network communication protocol designed for both single robot and multi-robot systems; an object oriented Application Programming Interface (API) based on the C++ language.…”

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