Reconfiguration and Reprogramming in Robotics and Communication Network Control Systems: Proposal for Continued Collaborative Berkeley-LAAS Research

机器人研究的重点已经转移到开发一个统一的操作环境，以协调各种任务的几个硬件和软件组件。从这种焦点转移中揭示了两个问题：控制系统架构的重新配置和控制系统的新功能和新应用的重新编程。在通信网络协议设计中也发生了类似的转变，从设计实现单一协议的控制器到设计可以支持多种协议的控制器。这项活动的目的是通过机器人控制和通信协议研究的思想交流，实现控制系统重构和重新编程的进步。这将通过将伯克利和图卢兹LAAS的机器人和通信网络研究小组更紧密地结合在一起来实现。

The focus of robotics research has shifted to the development of a unified operating environment for coordinating several hardware and shofware components for a variety of tasks. Two problems are revealed from this shift of focus: reconfiguration of the control system architecture and reprogramming the control system for new functionalities and new applications. A similar shift has occurred in communication network protocol design from one designing controllers that implement a single protocol to one controllers that can support a variety of protocols. The aim of this activity is to achieve advances in control system reconfiguration and reprogramming through a cross-fertilization of ideas from robotics control and communication protocol research. This will be achieved by bringing closer together the robotics and communication network research groups at Berkeley and LAAS, Toulouse.