Parallel processing approaches in robotics

This paper presents the different possibilities for parallel processing in robot control architectures. Initially, the authors briefly review the historic development of control architectures. Then, a list of requirements for control architectures is set up from a parallel processing point of view. As their main topic, they identify the levels of parallel processing in robot control architectures. With each level of parallelism, examples for a typical robot control architecture are presented. Finally, a list of keywords is provided for each previous work the authors refer to.