Cloud Networked Robotics Speaker: Kai-Wei Ping Advisor: Prof Dr. Ho-Ting Wu 2013/04/08 1

Purpose supporting daily activity especially for the elderly and the disabled 2

Outline Introduction Cloud Networked Robotics Challenges Life Support Robot Technology project 3

Introduction With the rapid growth of the Internet and the spread of smartphones, our lifestyles are greatly changing. Such slow but stable change for the forthcoming aged society requires further changes that cannot be fulfilled by technology enhancement in cyberspace. Physical supports in the real world, which can only be acted upon by such new devices as robots, are emergently required. 4

Introduction Even though improving reusability and mutual connectivity, they remain insufficient for thoroughly supporting daily activities. As such, the activities of our daily life consist of sequences of different tasks performed in different contexts. Complexity, Cost 5

Networked Robot A ‘networked robot’ is a robotic device connected to a communications network such as the Internet or LAN. The network could be wired or wireless, and based on any of a variety of protocols such as TCP, UDP, or

Cloud Networked Robotics Cloud Networked Robotics, which abstracts robotic functionalities and provides a means for utilizing them. These “robots” are logically gathered to form a cloud of robots by networking to realize an integrated system that provides seamless support in daily activities using the available resources on demand 7

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Cloud Computing The technologies of web services and serviceoriented architecture (SOA), which form the technical foundation of cloud computing, have also been applied to robotic technologies in three ways. 9

Cloud Computing One is the utilization of computational resources for enhancing the abilities of robots on cloud servers Knowledge sharing and the exchange of semantic information. Another approach utilizes robotic resources as a cloud to solve the issue of continuous support in robotic services. 10

Robots Visible types are physically embodied agents with a physical actuation facility Virtual types appear on the screens of mobile information devices as agents for communicating with users Unconscious types are mainly deployed in environments for sensing and form ambient intelligence 11

Challenges Combining stand-alone robots or multi-robot systems, networked robots and Cloud computing are not sufficient for continuously supporting daily activities. 12

Challenges Multi-Robot Management Multi-Area Management User Attribute Management Service Coordination Management 13

Life Support Robot Technology It aims at the development of life support robots with high safety, reliability, and adaptability to enable robots to coexist with people in human living environments. Six robotic services ： remote listening support service, community formation service, healthcare service, shopping support service, customer attracting service, and touring support service. 14

Life Support Robot Technology In the project, the common functionalities described in the previous section are implemented as a common infrastructure system called the Ubiquitous Network Robot Platform 15

UNR-PF UNR-PF itself is composed of two platform layers: a local platform (LPF) and a global platform (GPF) The database functions consist of robot, map, user, and operator registries, and service cues. The management functions consist of state, resource, and message managers. 16

Case Study 17

Field Testing 18

Conclusion This article proposed the concept of Cloud Networked Robotics, which targets continuous support of daily activities that cannot be satisfied by stand-alone robotic services or by networked robotic services Many other aspects must be studied,including scalability and dependability Moreover, cloud networked robot systems will likely encounter security and ethical issues 19

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