BUILDING A FAULT TOLERANT ARCHITECTURE FOR INTERNET ROBOTS USING MOBILE AGENTS

In Internet robot systems it is necessary to overcome the challenges of the limited bandwidth, indeterminate transmission delay, and potential data loss in order to make use of its cost effective functionality. With most systems focusing on these challenges, fault tolerance issues have not yet been addressed systematically in Internet robotics. The work described in this paper focuses on the development of a fault tolerant architecture for Internet robots taking into consideration the challenges imposed by the Internet as a communication mechanism. We aim to overcome these challenges and develop fault tolerance in our system by employing the mobile agent-programming

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