Citation
Daniel Graff. "Operating System Support for Mobile Robot Swarms". Talk or presentation, 13, April, 2015.

Abstract
In this paper, we present an operating system for mobile robot swarms. Three main issues are addressed here: First, the programming abstraction is introduced that states the model based on which swarm applications are developed. They consist of spatial-temporal actions that are executed concurrently and distributed. This is completely transparent for the application developer. An action is an interaction with the physical world and requests swarm resources in order to perform the action. Next, the operating system is presented. It is responsible for the execution of swarm applications. The system follows a service-oriented architecture design which consists of global system services and local node services. While the former perform system management and resource allocation, the latter perform the application execution and node movement. Last, in order to assign spatial-temporal actions to nodes a central element of the operating system is the space-time scheduler. It schedules the actions from all applications in space and time and computes spatial-temporal trajectories for the node movement.

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  Daniel Graff. <a
  href="http://www.terraswarm.org/pubs/561.html"
  ><i>Operating System Support for Mobile Robot
  Swarms</i></a>, Talk or presentation,  13,
  April, 2015.

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  Daniel Graff. "Operating System Support for Mobile
  Robot Swarms". Talk or presentation,  13, April, 2015.

• BibTeX

  @presentation{Graff15_OperatingSystemSupportForMobileRobotSwarms,
      author = {Daniel Graff},
      title = {Operating System Support for Mobile Robot Swarms},
      day = {13},
      month = {April},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {In this paper, we present an operating system for
                mobile robot swarms. Three main issues are
                addressed here: First, the programming abstraction
                is introduced that states the model based on which
                swarm applications are developed. They consist of
                spatial-temporal actions that are executed
                concurrently and distributed. This is completely
                transparent for the application developer. An
                action is an interaction with the physical world
                and requests swarm resources in order to perform
                the action. Next, the operating system is
                presented. It is responsible for the execution of
                swarm applications. The system follows a
                service-oriented architecture design which
                consists of global system services and local node
                services. While the former perform system
                management and resource allocation, the latter
                perform the application execution and node
                movement. Last, in order to assign
                spatial-temporal actions to nodes a central
                element of the operating system is the space-time
                scheduler. It schedules the actions from all
                applications in space and time and computes
                spatial-temporal trajectories for the node
                movement. },
      URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/561.html}
  }
  

Posted by Armin Wasicek on 7 May 2015.