UMBRELLA Collaborative Robotics Testbed and IoT Platform

Farnham, Tim; Jones, Simon; Aijaz, Adnan; Jin, Yichao; Mavromatis, Ioannis; Raza, Usman; Portelli, Anthony J.; Stanoev, Aleksandar; Sooriyabandara, Mahesh

doi:10.1109/ccnc49032.2021.9369615

Cited by 15 publications

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“…A Linux server is used for data collection, Kubernetes orchestration, video streaming, and general experiment management. The arena server and 5G base station are connected to the UMBRELLA network [37] with a fibre link.…”

Section: B Industrial Swarm Testbedmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…6) Online portal for remote experimentation: The physical arena and the simulation environment are designed to be useable remotely. The UMBRELLA Platform, detailed in [37] provides cloud infrastructure to facilitate this. An online portal is used for managing experiments through which users may upload controller containers and simulator and experiment configuration files -controlling for example the number and starting positions or the robots, and download data generated during an experimental run.…”

Section: B Industrial Swarm Testbedmentioning

confidence: 99%

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DOTS: An Open Testbed for Industrial Swarm Robotic Solutions

Jones¹,

Milner²,

Sooriyabandara³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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We present DOTS, a new open access testbed for industrial swarm robotics experimentation. It consists of 20 fast agile robots with high sensing and computational performance, and real-world payload capability. They are housed in an arena equipped with private 5G, motion capture, multiple cameras, and openly accessible via an online portal. We reduce barriers to entry by providing a complete platform-agnostic pipeline to develop, simulate, and deploy experimental applications to the swarm. We showcase the testbed capabilities with a swarm logistics application, autonomously and reliably searching for and retrieving multiple cargo carriers.

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Section: B Industrial Swarm Testbedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: B Industrial Swarm Testbedmentioning

confidence: 99%

DOTS: An Open Testbed for Industrial Swarm Robotic Solutions

Jones¹,

Milner²,

Sooriyabandara³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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“…The UMBRELLA platform is a large-scale real-world testbed for IoT applications [6]. The UMBRELLA edge device [9] includes a Raspberry Pi 3 Compute Module [14], a Jetson Nano [12], and various communications interfaces.…”

Section: Edge Devicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The AutoCES allows the user to configure the experiments and execute them on the UMBRELLA edge device or VM. Currently the UMBRELLA testbed allows users the ability to run experiments on the platform [6]. However, the auditd utility would need to be enabled.…”

Section: Scenariosmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Container Escape Detection for Edge Devices

Pope

Raimondo

Kumar

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

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Edge computing is rapidly changing the IoT-Cloud landscape. Various testbeds are now able to run multiple Docker-like containers developed and deployed by end-users on edge devices. However, this capability may allow an attacker to deploy a malicious container on the host and compromise it. This paper presents a dataset based on the Linux Auditing System, which contains malicious and benign container activity. We developed two malicious scenarios, a denial of service and a privilege escalation attack, where an adversary uses a container to compromise the edge device. Furthermore, we deployed benign user containers to run in parallel with the malicious containers. Container activity can be captured through the host system via system calls. Our time series auditd dataset contains partial labels for the benign and malicious related system calls. Generating the dataset is largely automated using a provided AutoCES framework. We also present a semi-supervised machine learning use case with the collected data to demonstrate its utility. The dataset and framework code are open-source and publicly available. CCS CONCEPTS• Information systems → Data mining; • Security and privacy → Intrusion/anomaly detection and malware mitigation.

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UMBRELLA: A One-Stop Shop Bridging the Gap From Lab to Real-World IoT Experimentation

Mavromatis,

Jin,

Stanoev

et al. 2024

IEEE Access

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UMBRELLA a is an open, large-scale IoT ecosystem deployed across South Gloucestershire, UK. It is intended to accelerate innovation across multiple technology domains. UMBRELLA is built to bridge the gap between existing specialised testbeds and address holistically real-world technological challenges in a System-of-Systems (SoS) fashion. UMBRELLA provides open access to real-world devices and infrastructure, enabling researchers and the industry to evaluate solutions for Smart Cities, Robotics, Wireless Communications, Edge Intelligence, and more. Key features include over 200 multi-sensor nodes installed on public infrastructure, a robotics arena with 20 mobile robots, a 5G network-in-a-box solution, and a unified backend platform for management, control and secure user access. The heterogeneity of hardware components, including diverse sensors, communication interfaces, and GPU-enabled edge devices, coupled with tools like digital twins, allows for comprehensive experimentation and benchmarking of innovative solutions not viable in lab environments. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of UMBRELLA's multi-domain architecture and capabilities, making it an ideal playground for Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT (IIoT) innovation. It discusses the challenges in designing, developing and operating UMBRELLA as an open, sustainable testbed and shares lessons learned to guide similar future initiatives. With its unique openness, heterogeneity, realism and tools, UMBRELLA aims to continue accelerating cutting-edge technology research, development and translation into real-world progress.

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UMBRELLA Collaborative Robotics Testbed and IoT Platform

Cited by 15 publications

References 3 publications

DOTS: An Open Testbed for Industrial Swarm Robotic Solutions

DOTS: An Open Testbed for Industrial Swarm Robotic Solutions

Container Escape Detection for Edge Devices

UMBRELLA: A One-Stop Shop Bridging the Gap From Lab to Real-World IoT Experimentation

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