An infrastructure for robotic applications as cloud computing services

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source of Publication

2014 IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, WF-IoT 2014

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Abstract

Robotic applications are becoming ubiquitous. They are widely used in several areas (e.g., healthcare, disaster management, and manufacturing). However, their provisioning still faces several challenges such as cost and resource usage efficiency. Cloud computing is an emerging paradigm that may aid in tackling these challenges. It has three main facets: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). This paper focuses on the IaaS aspects of robotic applications as cloud computing services. It proposes an architecture that enables cost efficiency through virtualization and dynamic task delegation to robots, including robots that might belong to other clouds. Overlays and RESTful Web services are used as cornerstones. A prototype is built using LEGO Mindstorms NXT as the robotic platform, and JXTA as the overlay middleware. Related work is reviewed, the functional entities and interfaces of the architecture are described, and the prototype architecture is presented along with the implemented scenario. © 2014 IEEE.

Publisher

IEEE Computer Society

First Page

377

Last Page

382

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

cloud computing, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Robotic applications, task allocation, task delegation

Scopus ID

84900403063

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

yes

Open Access Type

Green: A manuscript of this publication is openly available in a repository

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