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Seamless Integration of Robots and Tiny Embedded Devices in a PEIS-Ecology
M. Bordignon, J. Rashid, M. Broxvall and A. Saffiotti
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Abstract
The fields of autonomous robotics and ambient intelligence are
converging toward the vision of smart robotic environments, in which
tasks are performed via the cooperation of many networked robotic
devices. To enable this vision, we need a common communication and
cooperation model that can be shared between robotic devices at
different scales, ranging from standard mobile robots to tiny embedded
devices. Unfortunately, today's robot middlewares are too heavy to run
on tiny devices, and middlewares for embedded devices are too simple to
support the cooperation models needed by an autonomous smart
environment. In this paper, we propose a middleware model which allows
the seamless integration of standard robots and simple off-the-shelf
embedded devices. Our middleware is suitable for building truly
ubiquitous robotics applications, in which devices of very different
scales and capabilities can cooperate in a uniform way. We discuss the
principles and implementation of our middleware, and show an experiment
in which a mobile robot, a commercial mote, and a custom-built mote
cooperate in a home service scenario.
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