RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURE PROPOSAL APPLIED TO MOBILE ROBOTS

Abstract. Due to the fast innovation speed in the hardware and software technologies in the field of embedded systems, it becomes more and more necessary to develop applications based on methodologies, which take into account the easiness of future modifications, updates and improvements in the designed system. According to these requirements, this work presents a proposal of environment using reconfigurable computing applied to mobile robots prototype design. The developed software and hardware are structured in independent blocks, through open architecture implementation, allowing the easy expansion of the syste m, better adapting the mobile robot to the tasks associated to it. Keywords. Open Control Architecture, Reconfigurable computing, Mobile Robots, Embedded Systems. 1