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ETFA
2006
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Variable Pallet Pick-Up for Automatic Guided Vehicles in Industrial Environments
- This paper presents two laser scanner based approaches to locate and pick-up pallets with the aim of automating forklift trucks. In contrast to camera based systems our approache...
Daniel Lecking, Oliver Wulf, Bernardo Wagner
ETFA
2006
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Innovation Science
The term innovation resonates broadly in the cyberspace, books, and journals. A careful analysis of the literature indicates that the knowledge of the underlying science of innova...
Andrew Kusiak
ETFA
2006
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Component based deployment of industrial control systems: a hybrid scheduling approach
This paper deals with the IEC 61499 standard. A function block (FB) is an event triggered component and an application is a distributed FBs network on several devices. We consider...
Mohamed Khalgui, Xavier Rebeuf, Françoise S...
ETFA
2006
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
An Initial Task Assignment Method for Autonomous Distributed Vehicle Systems with Finite Buffer Capacity
This paper discusses an on-line Tasks Assignment and Routing Problem(TARP) for Autonomous Transportation Systems(ATSs) in manufacturing systems. The TARP results in a constrained ...
Yusuke Morihiro, Toshiyuki Miyamoto, Sadatoshi Kum...
ETFA
2006
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Non-Schedulability Conditions for Off-line Scheduling of Real-Time Systems Subject to Precedence and Strict Periodicity Constrai
Classical off-line approaches based on preemption such as RM (Rate Monotonic), DM (Deadline Monotonic), EDF (Earliest Deadline First), LLF (Least Laxity First), etc, give schedula...
Patrick Meumeu Yomsi, Yves Sorel
ETFA
2006
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Towards a Service-Oriented IEC 61499 compliant Engineering Support Environment
Kleanthis Thramboulidis, Giannis Koumoutsos, G. Do...
ETFA
2006
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Verification of The Minimum Cost Forwarding Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) consist of small self-contained devices with computational, sensing and wireless communication capabilities. They allow flexible, powerful, tetherles...
William D. Henderson, Steven Tron
ETFA
2006
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
DSAAR: A Distributed Software Architecture for Autonomous Robots
— This paper describes the DSAAR architecture, which aims the fast development and prototyping of multi-robot systems and it is based on Linux inter-process communication (IPC) m...
Pedro F. Santana, Vasco Santos, José Barata
ETFA
2006
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Advance in Multiply Sectioned Bayesian Networks: Sensor Network Practitioners' Perspective
Multiplysectioned Bayesian networks provide a probabilistic framework for reasoning about uncertain domains in cooperative multiagent systems. Several advances have been made in r...
Y. Xiang, K. Zhang
ETFA
2006
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Response-Time Analysis of tasks with offsets
Abstract— This article presents some results about schedulability analysis of tasks with offsets also known as transactions, in the particular case of monotonic transactions. The...
Karim Traore, Emmanuel Grolleau, Ahmed Rahni, Mich...