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Real-Time Communications (RTC) This project is no longer active. Head: Jorgen Pedersen Mailing address: National Robotics Engineering Center 10 40th Street Pittsburgh, PA 15201 Associated center: NREC

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Project Description

Robotics systems today have such high computational requirements that it is necessary to distribute the workload across many processes and processors. Because of this distribution, a means for transferring data between these processes is required. Many low level protocols exist today for handling this communication task, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. This project strives to develop a higher level communication protocol built on top of these lower level protocols, geared specifically toward meeting the system requirements of real-time robotic systems. RTC has been rigorously tested in several real-world robotic applications including the Automated Loading System, the Underground Mining Project, and Demeter.

Past members

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Jorgen Pedersen	NREC Commercialization Specialist

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Robust Communications for High Bandwidth Real-Time Systems
  J. Pedersen
  master's thesis, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-98-13, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1998. [Abstract]
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