Robot-Human Agreements and Financial Transactions Enabled by a Blockchain and Smart Contracts

Cardenas, Irvin Steve; Kim, Jong Hoon

doi:10.1145/3173386.3177818

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“…The smart door lock verifies received control messages for authenticity and records any door control transactions on the blockchain. Reference [142] is another work involving hybrid financial transactions between a robot and a human for the robot to complete assigned tasks and have the outcome asserted on the blockchain.…”

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Blockchain for Cities—A Systematic Literature Review

2018

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Blockchain is considered one of the most disruptive technologies of our time. Numerous cities around the world are launching blockchain initiatives as part of the overall efforts toward shaping the urban future. However, the infancy stage of the blockchain industry leads to a severe gap between the knowledge we have and the actions urban policy makers are taking. This paper is an effort to narrow this rift. We provide a systematic literature review on concrete blockchain use cases proposed by the research community. At the macro-level, we discuss and organize use cases from 159 selected papers into nine sectors recognized as crucial for sustainable and smart urban future. At the micro-level, we identify a component-based framework and analyze the design and prototypes of blockchain systems studied in a subset of 71 papers. The high-level use case review allows us to illustrate the relationship between them and the four pillars of urban sustainability: social, economic, environmental, and governmental. The system level analysis helps us highlight interesting inconsistencies between well-known blockchain applicability decision rules and the approaches taken by the literature. We also offer two classification methodologies for blockchain use cases and elaborate on how they can be applied to stimulate cross-sector insights in the blockchain knowledge domain.INDEX TERMS Bitcoin, blockchain, computer networks, consensus, crypto token, distributed computing, Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, systematic literature review, smart city, smart contract, system analysis and design, peer-to-peer computing, urban sustainability, use case.

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Section: ) E-commercementioning

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Blockchain for Cities—A Systematic Literature Review

2018

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“…They proposed to enable efficient and real-time learning of IMs/DLMs and to extend the framework to handle multiple private networks at-once in their future works. Cardenas and Kim (2018) illustrated the design and interaction model of a robot to employ it in financial transactions to facilitate agreements with humans, and presented a use-case of a robot -roBUwhose goal is to travel the world; by taking assistance from humans in return of bilateral financial agreement, using 5-phase agreement processes, cryptocurrencies and smart contract technologies. An interaction schematic and key technical requirements are also described for the use-case.…”

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A Survey on Blockchain in Robotics: Issues, Opportunities, Challenges and Future Directions

Aditya

Singh

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Journal of Network and Computer Applications

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“…The literature most closely related to our work is in ( Meldman-Floch, 2018 ), where the author models a block as a sheaf and develops a theory for distributed consensus protocols. Human-robot interactions captured on a blockchain with smart contracts have been studied in ( Cardenas and Kim, 2018 ) where the authors propose a case study for a traveling robot that can enter into financial agreements stored on the blockchain in exchange for assistance in traveling the world. Work in Robinson (2012) has proposed a sheaf-based framework for understanding the behavioral properties of a logic circuits, and emphasized the role of a sheaf-based analytical framework in uncovering hazardous conditions such as timing-related race behavior between elements in a combinational circuit.…”

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On the Design of Social Robots Using Sheaf Theory and Smart Contracts

Murimi

2021

Front. Robot. AI

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The incorporation of robots in the social fabric of our society has taken giant leaps, enabled by advances in artificial intelligence and big data. As these robots become increasingly adept at parsing through enormous datasets and making decisions where humans fall short, a significant challenge lies in the analysis of robot behavior. Capturing interactions between robots, humans and IoT devices in traditional structures such as graphs poses challenges in the storage and analysis of large data sets in dense graphs generated by frequent activities. This paper proposes a framework that uses the blockchain for the storage of robotic interactions, and the use of sheaf theory for analysis of these interactions. Applications of our framework for social robots and swarm robots incorporating imperfect information and irrationality on the blockchain sheaf are proposed. This work shows the application of such a framework for various blockchain applications on the spectrum of human-robot interaction, and identifies key challenges that arise as a result of using the blockchain for robotic applications.

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Robot-Human Agreements and Financial Transactions Enabled by a Blockchain and Smart Contracts

Cited by 9 publications

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Blockchain for Cities—A Systematic Literature Review

Blockchain for Cities—A Systematic Literature Review

A Survey on Blockchain in Robotics: Issues, Opportunities, Challenges and Future Directions

On the Design of Social Robots Using Sheaf Theory and Smart Contracts

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