Computer data communication busses

Abstract

DOI: 10.1049/ic:19960947 Location: Portsmouth, UK Conference date: 29 Oct. 1996 Format: PDF Intercommunication and interfaces for climbing and walking robots must be serial and simple yet capable of high speed and asynchronous operation. They need to cope with a wide variety of sensors, actuators, tele-operating and monitoring devices. The interfaces and data communications mechanisms we had (and many still use) do not do the job. Our requirements for guaranteed and predictable communication can be reasonably well satisfied at low speeds by the overall technology approach of LonWorks (ANSI/ASHRAE 135-1995), or at a wide variety of potential data rates by some combination of three standards: CAN (ISO 11898), USB and Firewire (IEEE 1394). They operate at three different bands of data-rate, but it is quite feasible for a single interface to cover all the rates. (3 pages) Inspec keywords: IEEE standards; ISO standards; system buses; data communication; mobile robots; computerised control; ANSI standards Subjects: Mobile robots; Control engineering computing; System buses