Paper Info
Title
CloudThinking as an Intelligent Infrastructure for Mobile Robotics
Abstract
Mobile robotics is a transforming field that presents a varying set of challenges. The discussion on the autonomy of (self-powered) robots is not settled, and as the communication infrastructure evolves, centralized concepts become more attractive over distributed concepts. This paper presents the CloudThinking architecture applied to intelligent cloud-based robotic operation. CloudThinking offloads most of complex robotic tasks to a central cloud, which retrieves inputs from the environment as a whole in order to instruct the robots to perform its actions. CloudThinking is a natural approach to the orchestration of multiple specialized robotic systems, defining the best mechanisms for reaching a goal. Furthermore, this architecture provides a set of automatic features which can be useful for application developers. These features can fully exploit novel cloud tools development as it becomes available, providing a time-resilient infrastructure of easy upgrade. The resulting approach has the potential to create a different set of market for robotic application developers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/s11277-014-1687-1
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Keywords
Field
DocType
Mobile robotics,Cloud-based approaches,Computer Thinking
Computer science,Computer network,Human–computer interaction,Artificial intelligence,Robotic paradigms,Robotics,Distributed computing,Architecture,Upgrade,Exploit,Robot,Orchestration (computing),Cloud computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
76
2
0929-6212
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.36
16
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rui L. Aguiar1662111.61
Diogo Gomes211023.88
João Paulo Barraca310919.24
Nuno Lau48112.70