Traditional mobile robots with fixed structures lack the ability to cope complex terrains and tasks. Reconfigurable modular have received considerable attention as they can automatically reassemble according changing environment or task. In this paper, a new self-reconfiguration wave-like crawling (SWC) robot is presented improve robots’ locomotion capacity. First, mechanical design of mechanis...

In recent years, ubiquitous and pervasive scenarios have emerged as a complex ecosystem where differentiated software/hardware components interoperate wirelessly and seamlessly. The goal is to enable users to continuously access services and contents, and to always get the best out of their current environment and available resources. In such dynamic and flexible scenarios, the need emerges for...

This project investigates a self-reconfiguring rSoC (reconfigurable System on Chip) system which automatically and dynamically loads peripheral controllers, based on the peripherals connected to the system. The Xilinx Virtex-II FGPA, which supports dynamic partial reconfiguration, is used as the experimental target. To implement the system, three main areas are investigated: the peripheral auto...

The paper deals with automatic reconfiguration problems of distributed control systems that are composed of a group/set of networked reconfigurable devices. A multi-agent architecture is proposed such that each device of a distributed control system has a special self-governed agent named reconfiguration sub-controller agent to manage its local reconfiguration. Accordingly, a communication prot...

Energy efficiency of software is an increasingly important topic. To achieve energy efficiency, a system should automatically optimize itself to provide the best possible utility to the user for the least possible cost in terms of energy consumption. To reach this goal, the system has to continuously decide whether and how to adapt itself, which takes time and consumes energy by itself. During ...

A highly desirable feature for next generation robots operating on terrestrial or extraterrestrial environment (Chien et al., 2006) is that they possess the property of sustainable autonomic systems enveloping the self-management and self-x characteristics such: self-reconfiguration, self-optimization, and self-healing. Responses taken automatically by a system without real-time human intervent...

Computing nodes in a flexible network arrangement must support a range of programming facilities. Modern controllers allow already programs stored in different degrees of permanency. Other measures are more focused on structural changes. The overall potential is to-day not supported by a single device. It is the purpose of this paper to outline the architectural requirements for a generic LOFAR...

Over recent decades, the demand for smarter and more intelligent manufacturing systems has increased in order to meet growing requirements of customers. Manufacturing are termed as smart (SMSs); these capable fully integrated autonomous operation. Specifically, concept functions been adopted next generation (NGMSs). Among NGMSs, fractal system (FrMS) exhibits several characteristics that simila...

Self-optimizing mechatronic systems are based on intrinsic controller systems whose complexity by far exceeds that of currently available systems. In addition to procedures taken from artificial intelligence, procedures for a reconfiguration by means of appropriate design methods have to be integrated to fully implement self-optimization features. Special importance falls to a networking of suc...