Cloud Robotics Experimentation Testbeds: a Cloud-Based Navigation Case Study

Mello, Ricardo C.; Sierra, Sergio; Múnera, Marcela; Cifuentes, Carlos A.; Ribeiro, Moisés R. N.; Frizera, Anselmo

doi:10.1109/ccac.2019.8921387

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“…From the cloud he analyzes the download of the computing tasks on navigation. In addition, it integrates several test benches through FUTEBOL, which allows the experimentation with Industry 4.0 applications [39]. De Mello et al also present a pilot experiment of a cloud-connected mobility assisted device, which interacts with users.…”

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Cloud Robotics for Industry 4.0 - A Literature Review

Villagrán

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Estévez

2020

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Robots in the industry have been used for decades, much before the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution. They have been incorporated into industrial processes in various ways, for example, with mechanic arms, in assembly processes, welding, and painting, among others. Industrial robots are located in restricted access sites and their space is delimited by means of physical barriers and security measures. In recent years, Industry 4.0 proposes the use robots, able to collaborate with persons, known as collaborative robots or "cobots". Cobots are characterized by cooperating with human work, sharing the same workspace, and able to respond to simple human-machine interactions. In addition, given the benefits of applying cloud computing in Industry 4.0, research has been conducted in applying such technologies to robots. The approach is known as "cloud robotics" and appears as an emerging topic. The objective of this work is to carry out a systematic literature review of cloud robotics for Industry 4.0, in an attempt to present the state of the art in this field and identify opportunities for future research. From the analysis of the results, we observe an emerging interest in this area, and we identify main technologies applied, research themes, and application areas, as well as a special interest on security and safety aspects.

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“…Chaâri et al [21], Dinh et al[26], Toquica et al[22], Anton et al[37], Krishna et al[18], Fosch Villaronga and Millard[52], Aissam et al[13], Horton et al[48], Liu et al[29], Mello et al[39] …”

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Cloud Robotics for Industry 4.0 - A Literature Review

Villagrán

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Estévez

2020

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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“…In [ 31 ], the long-range wide area network (LoRaWAN) communication protocol was tested with a terrestrial WSN, a gateway onboard an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a simulated satellite. In [ 32 ], a cloud robotics testbed was used to implement the autonomous navigation of a very remote unmanned ground vehicle (UGV). In [ 33 ], a lab-scale implementation was used to test a cloud computing architecture for the distributed remote control of heterogeneous unmanned vehicles.…”

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The Internet of Cooperative Agents Architecture (X-IoCA) for Robots, Hybrid Sensor Networks, and MEC Centers in Complex Environments: A Search and Rescue Case Study

Bravo-Arrabal

Toscano-Moreno

Lozano

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Sensors

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Cloud robotics and advanced communications can foster a step-change in cooperative robots and hybrid wireless sensor networks (H-WSN) for demanding environments (e.g., disaster response, mining, demolition, and nuclear sites) by enabling the timely sharing of data and computational resources between robot and human teams. However, the operational complexity of such multi-agent systems requires defining effective architectures, coping with implementation details, and testing in realistic deployments. This article proposes X-IoCA, an Internet of robotic things (IoRT) and communication architecture consisting of a hybrid and heterogeneous network of wireless transceivers (H2WTN), based on LoRa and BLE technologies, and a robot operating system (ROS) network. The IoRT is connected to a feedback information system (FIS) distributed among multi-access edge computing (MEC) centers. Furthermore, we present SAR-IoCA, an implementation of the architecture for search and rescue (SAR) integrated into a 5G network. The FIS for this application consists of an SAR-FIS (including a path planner for UGVs considering risks detected by a LoRa H-WSN) and an ROS-FIS (for real-time monitoring and processing of information published throughout the ROS network). Moreover, we discuss lessons learned from using SAR-IoCA in a realistic exercise where three UGVs, a UAV, and responders collaborated to rescue victims from a tunnel accessible through rough terrain.

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“…Most of the existing work on testing platforms for robotic applications focus on Cloud robotics testbeds or platforms [1,3,4,[9][10][11]. In [11], the authors indicate the feasibility and challenges of a real world Cloud robotics implementation over Cloud testbed infrastructure. Besides, [4] suggests a Cloud robotics testbed that can be effective for developing not only robot-related experiments, but also network applications.…”

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Martín‐Pérez

Antevski

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Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Serverless Mobile Networking for 6G Communications

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Edge computing have received considerable attention as a promising candidate for the evolution of robotic systems. In this work, we propose COTORRA, an Edge driven robotic testbed that combines context information with robot sensor data to validate innovative concepts for robotic systems prior to being applied in a production environment. We have tested COTORRA in a controlled university environment as an easy applicable, serverless, and modular testbed on top of commodity network infrastructure. COTORRA supports pluggable robotic applications. To verify its feasibility and assess its performance, we ran a set of experiments that show how autonomous navigation applications can achieve target latencies bellow 15 ms, and perform an inter-domain Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) federation within 19 seconds. CCS CONCEPTS• Networks → Programmable networks; In-network processing.

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Cloud Robotics Experimentation Testbeds: a Cloud-Based Navigation Case Study

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Cloud Robotics for Industry 4.0 - A Literature Review

Cloud Robotics for Industry 4.0 - A Literature Review

The Internet of Cooperative Agents Architecture (X-IoCA) for Robots, Hybrid Sensor Networks, and MEC Centers in Complex Environments: A Search and Rescue Case Study

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