A Real-Time Database (RTDB) middleware for collaborative robotics

bitbucket.org/fredericosantos/ra-tdma/

PI: Luís Almeida (U.Porto and IT: [email protected])

Led by: IT – Porto

This project aims at providing an open source middleware to ease the design of cooperative behaviors within teams of autonomous mobile units. It includes two parts, the upper layer that is the RTDB itself, which is replicated in all units and includes the interfaces for local application processes and for the communication layer, and a wireless communication protocol that keeps the several RTDB replicas synchronized, namely the RA-TDMA protocol, Reconfigurable and Adaptive TDMA. This middleware has been successfully used in the Middle-Size League robotic soccer competition of RoboCup by the teams CAMBADA, TechUnited and NuBots.