DRS operating primitives based on distributed mutual exclusion

Distributed mutual exclusion (DME) is an important concept in any multi-agent systems, including the distributed robotic system (DRS). Several basic DME algorithms employing sign-board as their inter-robot communication mechanism are presented. It is shown that a large number of DRS operating primitives, such as leader finding, dynamic ordering of robots and events, job assignment, and resource sharing, can be effectively implemented with algorithms based on DME.

Authors

• Jing Wang

Keywords

• Resource management
• Robotics and automation
• Robot sensing systems
• Power system reliability
• Mobile robots
• Distributed control
• Clocks
• Orbital robotics
• Manufacturing automation
• Intelligent robots
• Mutually Exclusive
• Space Exploration
• Robotic System
• Nuclear Power Plant
• Multi-agent Systems
• Order Of Events
• Distributed Algorithm
• Swarm Intelligence
• Clock Synchronization
• Job Assignment
• Distributed Computing
• Dynamic Strategy
• Deadlock
• Global Order
• Event Stream
• Critical Section