64/2005 : Plug-and-Play: Bridging the Semantic Gap Between Application and Transducers

RR Number

64/2005

Conference

Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation

Author(s)

Stefan Pitzek, Wilfried Elmenreich

Abstract

Plug-and-play is an important mechanism for achieving component integration and improving interoperability in smart transducer systems. While recent research in smart transducer interfaces has achieved a syntactically well-defined interface to arbitrary sensors and actuators, current plug-and-play approaches are limited by the semantic gap between the control application and the generic smart transducers. In this paper we propose a solution to this problem by establishing a smart interface system that consumes the sensor data from the smart transducers and provides a syntactically and semantically standardized interface to the control application. The smart interface system will be configured using data from the transducer metadescription, a system meta-description and the requirements from generic sensor data processing. As case study for such an interface system we present a generic high-level application component in form of the generic certainty grid, a sensor fusion algorithm for obstacle detection, and an approach for automatically configuring this application component and its associated smart transducer nodes in a plug-and-play like manner.

Bibtex

@article{ pitzek:2005-64,
  author =       "Stefan Pitzek and Wilfried Elmenreich",
  title =        "Plug-and-Play: Bridging the Semantic Gap  Between Application and Transducers",
  journal =      "Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on  Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation",
  year =         "2005",
  month =        "Sep."
}

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