An autonomous robot offers a challenging and ideal field for the study of intelligent
architectures. Autonomy within a rational be havior could be evaluated by the robot's …

Featuring contributions from major technology vendors, industry consortia, and government
and private research establishments, the Industrial Communication Technology Handbook …

The design, simulation and programming of robotics systems is challenging as expertise
from multiple domains needs to be integrated conceptually and technically. Domain-specific …

The MARTHA project objectives are the control and the management of a fleet of
autonomous mobile robots for transshipment tasks in harbors, airports and marshalling …

We discuss Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) as a high-level control and supervision
language adapted to autonomous robots to represent and execute procedures, scripts and …

Microsystem technology (MST) integrates very small (up to a few nanometers) mechanical,
electronic, optical, and other components on a substrate to construct functional devices …

This paper presents a general methodology for the specification and the integration of
functional modules in a distributed reactive robot architecture. The approach is based on a …

This paper deals with motion planning and control for mobile robots. The various
components of an integrated architecture for the mobile robot Hilare pulling a trailer are …

During the past few years there has been an dramatic upsurge in research and
development, implementations of new technologies, and deployments of actual solutions …

This paper identifies attributes of intelligent robotic applications and surveys the different
flavor in robot control architectures. Directions in robot control are discussed and the …