A high-performance network infrastructure and protocols for distributed automation - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

A high-performance network infrastructure and protocols for distributed automation

Shinji Kume and Alfred Rizzi
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 3, pp. 3121 - 3126, May, 2001

Abstract

Documents our efforts to develop a scalable low-cost and high-performance network infrastructure for a novel distributed automation system-minifactory. The resulting communication system (AAA-Net) relies on a suite of low-latency protocols carried by a commercial 100 Mb Fast Ethernet network. In addition to documenting the operation of this network system and its associated protocols we offer a brief comparison to the currently available commercial field network systems, and present experimental verification of the performance delivered by AAA-Net under typical and extreme operating conditions.

BibTeX

@conference{Kume-2001-8238,
author = {Shinji Kume and Alfred Rizzi},
title = {A high-performance network infrastructure and protocols for distributed automation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation},
year = {2001},
month = {May},
volume = {3},
pages = {3121 - 3126},
}