Communication with autonomous mobile vehicles

Communication in distributed control systems, especially those, that employ autonomous mobile devices moving in an unknown environment, requires high level of reliability, flexibility and speed in order to control individual nodes of the distributed network in real-time. This is the reason why several students’ works at the Department of Control Engineering involved development of mobile appliances with autonomous behaviour, which differ in terms of timing demands and amount of transmitted data, thus allowing choice of different types of wired as well as wireless communication. Structure of these mobile appliances as well as their communication with superior stationary node in the distributed network is described in this paper.