为机器人控制固件设计静态调度机制,提升响应速度与可靠性。
Static Timing Orchestration for Tree-Structured Robot Control Firmware

- 基于树状设备模型构建静态调度框架,统一控制逻辑入口。
- 实测在真实平台下延迟降低,运行响应更快。
- 适合对实时性要求高的机器人控制开发人员。
随着机器人系统日益复杂,从结构描述文件生成控制固件已成为降低开发复杂性和提高可维护性的有效方法。现有机器人描述格式天然以分层树状结构组织系统,设备逐级组合成功能子系统并最终构成完整机器人。然而,这种树状结构也引入了结构性数据依赖,影响感知到决策的延迟,进而制约控制性能。本文提出 FineMote,一种面向树状设备模型的控制固件生成框架,其调度机制专为该结构设计。该框架将异构底层控制逻辑对象化,暴露统一的调度单元和执行入口。基于生成的对象层次结构,调度机制利用编译时信息静态确定执行顺序,实现最小运行时开销。我们证明该机制满足截止时间与优先级约束,并推导出树内决策延迟的上界。我们在真实机器人控制平台上实现了该框架,并进行评估。实验结果表明,其具备更优的时序行为和更高的运行响应性,验证了设计方案的实际有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
As robotic systems become increasingly complex, generating control firmware from structural description files has emerged as a promising paradigm for reducing development complexity and improving maintainability. Existing robot description formats naturally represent robotic systems as hierarchical tree structures, where devices are recursively composed into functional subsystems and eventually into the complete robot. However, such tree-structured organization also introduces structured data dependencies that affect perception-to-decision latency and, consequently, control performance. In this paper, we propose FineMote, a control firmware generation framework with a scheduling mechanism tailored for tree-structured device models. The framework objectifies heterogeneous low-level control logic and exposes unified scheduling units and execution entry points. Based on the resulting object hierarchy, the scheduling mechanism exploits compile-time information to statically determine execution order with minimal runtime overhead. We prove that the proposed mechanism satisfies deadline and precedence constraints, and further derive an upper bound on intra-tree decision latency. We implement the proposed framework and evaluate it on real robotic control platforms. The experimental results show improved timing behavior and runtime responsiveness, demonstrating the practical effectiveness of the proposed design.
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