Reconfiguration and Reprogramming in Robotics and           Communication Network Control Systems: Proposal for         Continued Collaborative Berkeley-LAAS Research
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The focus of robotics research has shifted to the development of                a unified operating environment for coordinating several hardware               and shofware components for a variety of tasks.  Two problems are               revealed from this shift of focus:  reconfiguration of the                      control system architecture and reprogramming the control system                for new functionalities and new applications.  A similar shift                  has occurred in communication network protocol design from one                  designing controllers that implement a single protocol to one                   controllers that can support a variety of protocols.                                                                                                            The aim of this activity is to achieve advances in control system               reconfiguration and reprogramming through a cross-fertilization                 of ideas from robotics control and communication protocol                       research.  This will be achieved by bringing closer together the                robotics and communication network research groups at Berkeley                  and LAAS, Toulouse.
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