A Generic Guide for Using Membrane Computing in Robot Control

摘要

As various theoretical and practical details of using membrane computing models have been presented throughout the book, certain details might be hard to find at a later time. For this reason, this chapter provides the reader with a set of checkmark topics that a developer should address in order to implement a robot controller using a membrane computing model. The topics discussed address areas such as: (1) robot complexity, (2) number of robots, (3) task complexity, (4) simulation versus real world execution, (5) sequential versus parallel implementations. This chapter concludes with an overview of future research directions. These directions offer possible solutions for several important concerns: the development of complex generic algorithms that use a high level of abstraction, the design of swarm algorithms using a top-down (swarm-level) approach and ensuring the predictability of a controller by using concepts such as those used in real-time operating systems.