Cloud Robotics is an emerging paradigm in which robots, seen as abstract agents, have the possibility to connect to a common network and share on a complex infrastructure the information and knowledge they gather about the physical world; or conversely consume the data collected by other agents or made available on accessible database and repositories. In this paper we propose an implementation of an emergency-management service exploiting the possibilities offered by cloud robotics in a smart city scenario. A high-level cloud-platform manages a number of unmanned aerial vehicles (quadrotor UAVs) with the goal of providing aerial support to citizens that require it via a dedicated mobile app. The UAV reaches the citizen while forwarding a realtime video streaming to a privileged user (police officer),connected to the same cloud platform, that is allowed to teleoperate it by remote.
The aim of this paper is to present a sliding autonomy approach for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in the context of the project Fly4SmartCity. The project consists in the implementation of a cloud robotics service in which small UAVs are employed for emergency management, monitoring and surveillance in a smart city scenario. Human-robot interaction is mediated by the cloud robotics platform. We imagine three main levels of autonomy for UAVs: full autonomy, mixed-initiative and teleoperation. Then we propose different scenarios in which we analyze the Level Of Autonomy and the sliding autonomy approach. All services use shared knowledge (crowdsourcing and other data sources available on the Internet) for the management and control of the UAVs.
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