Economical Implementation of Control Loops for Multi-robot Systems

  • Jose Manuel Lopez-Guede
  • Manuel Graña
  • Ekaitz Zulueta
  • Oscar Barambones
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 5506)

Abstract

In spite of the multiple advantages that multi-robot systems offer, to turn them into a realistic option and to get their proliferation, they must be economically attractive. Multi-robot systems are composed of several robots that generally are similar, so if an economic optimization is done in one of them, such optimization can be replicated in each member. In this paper we deal with the economic optimization of each control loops of the subsystems that each robot must control individually. As the subsystems can be complex, we propose to use a Predictive Control modeled by Time Delayed Neural Networks and implemented using very low cost Field Programmable Gate Arrays.

Keywords

Control Loop Model Predictive Control Predictive Controller Economic Optimization FPGA Device 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Jose Manuel Lopez-Guede
    • 1
  • Manuel Graña
    • 2
  • Ekaitz Zulueta
    • 1
  • Oscar Barambones
    • 1
  1. 1.Computational Intelligence Group UPV/EHU System Engineering and Automatic Dept.University College of Engineering of Vitoria, Basque Country UniversityVitoriaSpain
  2. 2.Computational Intelligence Group UPV/EHU Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Dept., Faculty of Computer EngineeringBasque Country UniversitySan SebastiánSpain

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