Reconfigurable Agents for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks

Cemin, David; Götz, Marcelo; Pereira, Carlos Eduardo

doi:10.1109/sbesc.2012.10

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“…Another recent topic in Agent development in the implementation of Agents in hardware and communication of hardware and software agents. Some works discuss implementations of MAS with hardware Agents, such as in [1], [15] and [3] Most of the work in this area results in implementation proposals which allow only communication between Agents of the same implementation nature (hardware or software) or allow communication between Agents among different implementation natures only through the use of a custom protocol. Usually, the topic of migrating agents from software to hardware is also out of scope.…”

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“…The work described in [3] details an architecture proposal for implementing hardware Agents and allowing communication and migration between hardware and software Agents. Hardware agents are composed of an field-programmable gate array (FPGA) to implement the Agent hardware functionality and a host processor to provide the bridge between JADE messages and hardware execution.…”

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“…Some limitations discussed in [3] are that complete FPGA reconfiguration can be costly and that an external host processor has to be provided. This also brings the limitation that only one Agent is considered to exist in the FPGA at a time.…”

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“…A further contribution which can be made to [3] is the use of higher performance methods of communication between the host processor and the Agent function in FPGA. The proposed middleware relies on Programmed Input/Output (PIO) register accesses, which becomes suboptimal when transferring larger ammounts of data such as high resolution video or images.…”

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“…This work can be regarded as an extension to [3], and proposes a new framework, through the addition of higher performance methods of communication between the host processor and the FPGA.…”

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Multi-Agent Based Implementation of an Embedded Image Processing System in FPGA for Precision Agriculture Using UAVs

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This work proposes a framework and design-space exploration on possible implementations for Multi-Agent based embedded systems for precision agriculture applications using image processing. For this application, we evaluate both purely software-based implementations on different embedded processors, as well as implementations which feature dedicated peripherals for image processing implemented in FPGA. All of the implementations feature agent capabilities provided through the JADE Framework. The proposed Reconfigurable hardware Agent framework features capabilities which allow it to offer high performance for applications such as high resolution image processing. We consider the impact of JADE agent migration to an FPGA platform and evaluate the impact of partially reconfiguring the FPGA in this application. The proposed framework is evaluated in an application of use of UAVs for precision agriculture. A faster execution for the image processing algorithms and detection of points of interest (POI) allows for processing images of higher resolution, which may help the accuracy of POI detection. It may also allow for processing an increased number of images in real-time or improve the autonomy of the UAVs.

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Secure Remote Protocol for Fpga Reconfiguration

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2014

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In most of the wireless sensor network nodes main functionality in software are implemented using CPU. Since total energy consumption of periodic measurement and network listening are considerably increased. In order to tackle this problem novel reconfigurable peripheral blocks are introduced into the WSN. For ultra-low-power sensor networks, finite state machines are used for simple tasks where the system's microprocessor would be overqualified. This FSM unit autonomously handles simple sub-tasks of the periodic activities, Microprocessor to remain in a sleep state, thus saving energy. This work presents for implementing transition based reconfigurable FSM

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Reconfigurable Agents for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks

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References 14 publications

Multi-Agent Based Implementation of an Embedded Image Processing System in FPGA for Precision Agriculture Using UAVs

Multi-Agent Based Implementation of an Embedded Image Processing System in FPGA for Precision Agriculture Using UAVs

HAMSTER healthy, mobility and security-based data communication architecture for unmanned systems

Secure Remote Protocol for Fpga Reconfiguration

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