Robotics Research Technical Report

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Multiprocessor architectures are used in all the systems but they tend to be loosely coupled systems. Typically, processes are statically assigned to processors and there is no attempt dynamically to distribute the load among the processors. AS above, both economics as simplicity of design account for this in today's systems.