<title>Software architecture for image processing on a medium-grain parallel machine</title>

Modeling the software architecture of a prototype parallel machine

ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review ◽

10.1145/29904.29924 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 175-185 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

M. Ajmone Marsan ◽

G. Balbo ◽

G. Chiola ◽

G. Conte

Keyword(s):

Software Architecture ◽

Parallel Machine

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Software architecture for application-driven high-performance image processing

10.1117/12.279632 ◽

1997 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Dennis Koelma ◽

Pieter P. Jonker ◽

H. J. Sips

Keyword(s):

Image Processing ◽

Software Architecture ◽

High Performance

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SambotII: A New Self-Assembly Modular Robot Platform Based on Sambot

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app8101719 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (10) ◽

pp. 1719 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Wenshuai Tan ◽

Hongxing Wei ◽

Bo Yang

Keyword(s):

Image Processing ◽

Software Architecture ◽

Self Assembly ◽

Target Recognition ◽

Modular Robot ◽

Heavy Work ◽

Autonomous Movement ◽

Led Lights ◽

Dual Core ◽

Robot Platform

A new self-assembly modular robot (SMR) SambotII is developed based on SambotI, which is a previously-built hybird type SMR that is capable of autonomous movement and self-assembly. As is known, SambotI only has limited abilities of environmental perception and target recognition, because its STM-32 processor cannot handle heavy work, like image processing and path planning. To improve the computing ability, an x86 dual-core CPU is applied and a hierarchical software architecture with five layers is designed. In addition, to enhance its perception abilities, a laser-camera unit and a LED-camera unit are employed to obtain the distance and angle information, respectively, and the color-changeable LED lights are used to identify different passive docking surfaces during the docking process. Finally, the performances of SambotII are verified by docking experiments.

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