A Virtual-Time Operating-System Shell For A Hypercube In Robotics Applications
J. R. Einstein, J. Barhen, David R. Jefferson · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1987
Hypercube multiprocessors possess many attributes advantageous for autonomous, intelligent robots which operate in time-critical fashion in hostile environments. However, their message-passing architecture presents certain dif-ficulties in rapid changes of plans in response to unpredictable events in the environment. The status of a "virtual-time" operating-system shell, providing functions which facilitate such responses, is described.