Real Time Computing: Issues and Applications

马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校的计算机和信息科学系将继续开发他们之前获得的CER奖创建的基础设施，重点是支持他们的研究实时计算。这项研究将集中在以下领域：实时通信、实时分布式操作系统、实时人工智能、协作/分布式问题求解、机器人操作和几何推理、计算机视觉和机器人导航以及专用体系结构。参与各个研究领域的小组将进行丰富的互动，使系统小组开发的软件将用于人工智能、机器人和视觉应用领域，这些领域反过来将向系统小组提供宝贵的反馈。为支持这项研究而购买的设备包括升级到目前的工作站，升级Sequent Symmetrim多处理器，以及机器人和视觉的专门设备。

The department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst will continue to develop the infrastructure created with their prior CER award, with the emphasis on supporting their research real-time computing. This research will be concentrated in the following areas: real-time communication, real-time distributed operating systems, real-time artificial intelligence, cooperative/distributed problem solving, robotic manipulation and geometric reasoning computer vision and robot navigation, and special-purpose architectures. The groups involved in the various research areas will have a rich interaction, so that the software developed by the systems group will be used in the AI, robotics and vision application areas, and these areas will in turn give valuable feedback to the systems group. Equipment to be purchased in support of the research includes upgrades to current workstations, an upgrade for the Sequent Symmetry multiprocessor, as well as specialized equipment for robotics and vision.