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ppPDC Communication Framework – A New Tool for Distributed Robotics

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Parallel processing Producer-Distributor-Consumer (ppPDC) transmission scenario is proposed and developed for improving communication features of the Ethernet-based switched industrial networks. First version of ppPDC-based communication infrastructure was developed in the LabVIEW graphical programming platform as a flexible and low cost framework. Further development of the framework turned it into a fully functional real-time middleware, which has the main advantage of running the message processing in the protocol stacks in parallel, thus minimising the impact of nodes processing times on network efficiency. The proposed ppPDC-based communication infrastructure, amongst many other possible uses such as intelligent multiagent systems, can be well-suited in distributed robotics.

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  1. Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, Akademicka 16, 44-100, Gliwice, Poland

    Grzegorz Polaków & Mieczyslaw Metzger

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  1. School of Engineering, University of California, Merced,, 5200 North Lake Rd, CA 95343, Merced, USA

    Stefano Carpin

  2. Information Technology Research Institute National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Itsuki Noda

  3. Department of Information Engineering (DEI), University of Padua, Via G. Gradenigo, 6/a, 35131, Padova, Italy

    Enrico Pagello

  4. Department of Management and Engineering (DTG), University of Padua Stradella San Nicola, 3 I-36100, Vicenza, Italy

    Monica Reggiani

  5. Simulation, Systems Optimization and Robotics Group, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Hochschulstraße 10, 64289, Darmstadt, Germany

    Oskar von Stryk

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Polaków, G., Metzger, M. (2008). ppPDC Communication Framework – A New Tool for Distributed Robotics. In: Carpin, S., Noda, I., Pagello, E., Reggiani, M., von Stryk, O. (eds) Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots. SIMPAR 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5325. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89076-8_21

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