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Distributed Watchpoints: Debugging Large Multi-Robot Systems

 

In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA '07

Michael De Rosa, Seth Copen Goldstein, Peter Lee, Jason D. Campbell, Padmanabhan Pillai, and Todd C. Mowry

April, 2007

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@inproceedings{derosa-icra07,
  abstract = {Tightly-coupled multi-agent systems such as modular
     robots frequently exhibit properties of interest that span
     multiple modules. These properties cannot easily be detected from
     any single module, though they might readily be detected by
     combining the knowledge of multiple modules. Testing for
     distributed conditions is especially important in debugging or
     verifying the correctness of software for modular robots. We have
     developed a technique we call distributed watchpoint triggers
     which can efficiently recognize such distributed conditions. Our
     watchpoint description language can handle a variety of temporal,
     spatial, and logical properties spanning multiple robots. This
     paper presents that language, describes our fully-distributed,
     online mechanism for detecting distributed conditions in a
     running system, and evaluates the performance of our
     implementation. We found that the performance of the system is
     highly dependent on the program being debugged, scales linearly
     with ensemble size, and is small enough to make the system
     practical in all but the worst case scenarios.},
  author = {De~Rosa, Michael and Goldstein, Seth Copen and Lee, Peter
     and Campbell, Jason D. and Pillai, Padmanabhan and Mowry, Todd
     C.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on
     Robotics and Automation {ICRA '07}},
  venue = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
     (ICRA)},
  title = {Distributed Watchpoints: Debugging Large Multi-Robot
     Systems},
  year = {2007},
  month = {April},
  keywords = {Debugging, Distributed Algorithms},
  url = {http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~claytronics/papers/derosa-icra07.pdf},
}

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