MACC'97 Session: Network Application
It is desired to construct a mechanical system that works for a long time without any human support. But it is usually considered to be difficult to make the decentralized self-organizing autonomous system fault tolerant. In this paper, we propose to apply the theories of self-diagnosable systems for computer networks to this problem. As an example, we apply the highly structured one-step t-permanent fault diagnosable system, proposed by one of the authors (T. Kohda), to a decentralized self-organizing autonomous robotic system that makes up a circle. The result of simulation shows the usefulness of the proposed method.
self-diagnosis, self-organization, fault tolerance, permanent fault, intermittent fault
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