A blackboard architecture of control for AutoLab

Nizam Ahmed; Arcot Sowmya

doi:10.1117/12.290318

26 September 1997 A blackboard architecture of control for AutoLab

Nizam Ahmed, Arcot Sowmya

Proceedings Volume 3208, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVI: Algorithms, Techniques, Active Vision, and Materials Handling; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.290318
Event: Intelligent Systems and Advanced Manufacturing, 1997, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Abstract

This paper describes the design of a control system for a flexible automation system, AutoLab, for sample preparation and analysis in a chemistry laboratory without human assistance. The design has used the blackboard architecture for control which has to deal with problems of concurrency, deadlock and crash recovery while maintaining the real-time operation of AutoLab. Issues of the composition of blackboard area, coordination between communicating modules, robot operation are dealt with in the paper.

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Nizam Ahmed and Arcot Sowmya "A blackboard architecture of control for AutoLab", Proc. SPIE 3208, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVI: Algorithms, Techniques, Active Vision, and Materials Handling, (26 September 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.290318

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