Wireless QoS-enabled Multi-Technology Communication for the RHEA Robotic Fleet
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Thomas Hinterhofer [1] ; Slobodanka Tomic [1]
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[1] FTW Telecommunications Research Center Vienna
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- Localización: Proceedings of the first International Workshop on robotics and associated high technologies and equipment for agriculture (RHEA-2011): Montpellier, France September 9, 2011 / Pablo González de Santos (ed. lit.), Gilles Rabatel (ed. lit.), 2011, ISBN 978-84-615-6184-1, págs. 173-186
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The use of multiple communication interfaces based on heterogeneouswireless communication technologies can significantly improve network robustnessand performance. The resulting communication systems are suitable for industrialand robotic control scenarios with special requirements on Quality of Service (QoS)and reliability. In this paper we present the communication system of the RHEAEuropean project, which simultaneously uses 802.11a, 802.11g, ZigBee PRO andGPRS interfaces for communication within a mobile robotic fleet and with a staticcentralized mission planning and supervision entity. Furthermore, the approach forreal-time monitoring and prediction of the multi-technology network health isdescribed. This approach enables RHEA application developers to createapplications that use information about current and predicted network health inorder to react to or proactively adapt to potential communication issues likenetwork partitioning or drops of communication performance.
