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S. Pitzek, W. Elmenreich:
"Plug-and-Play: Bridging the Semantic Gap Between Application and Transducers";
Talk: ETFA, Catania, Italy; 2005-09-19 - 2005-09-22; in: "Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Internationla Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation", IEEE, I (2005), ISBN: 0-7803-9402-x; 799 - 806.

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 \pnp/ 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 meta-description, 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.

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