Using Sun’s Java Real-Time System to Manage Behavior-Based Mobile Robot Controllers
Joint Authors
Hu, Fei
Anderson, Monica
Dawson, Shameka
McKenzie, Andrew
Source
Issue
Vol. 2011, Issue 2011 (31 Dec. 2011), pp.1-11, 11 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2011-12-29
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
11
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Implementing a robot controller that can effectively manage limited resources in a deterministic, real-time manner is challenging.
Behavior-based architectures that decompose autonomy into levels of intelligence are popular due to their robustness but do not provide real-time features that enforce timing constraints or support determinism.
We propose an architecture and approach for using the real-time features of the Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ) in a behavior-based mobile robot controller to show that timing constraints affect performance.
This is accomplished by extending a real-time aware architecture that explicitly enumerates timing requirements for each behavior.
It is not enough to reduce latency.
The usefulness of this approach is demonstrated via an implementation on Solaris 10 and the Sun Java Real-Time System (Java RTS).
Experimental results are obtained using a K-team Koala robot performing path following with four composite behaviors.
Experiments were conducted using several task period sets in three cases: real-time threads with the real-time garbage collector, real-time threads with the non- real-time garbage collector, and non-real-time threads with the non-real-time garbage collector.
Results show that even if latency and determinism are improved, the timing of each individual behavior significantly affects task performance.
American Psychological Association (APA)
McKenzie, Andrew& Dawson, Shameka& Hu, Fei& Anderson, Monica. 2011. Using Sun’s Java Real-Time System to Manage Behavior-Based Mobile Robot Controllers. Journal of Robotics،Vol. 2011, no. 2011, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-478650
Modern Language Association (MLA)
McKenzie, Andrew…[et al.]. Using Sun’s Java Real-Time System to Manage Behavior-Based Mobile Robot Controllers. Journal of Robotics No. 2011 (2011), pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-478650
American Medical Association (AMA)
McKenzie, Andrew& Dawson, Shameka& Hu, Fei& Anderson, Monica. Using Sun’s Java Real-Time System to Manage Behavior-Based Mobile Robot Controllers. Journal of Robotics. 2011. Vol. 2011, no. 2011, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-478650
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-478650