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Internet of robotic things : converging sensing/actuating, hypoconnectivity, artificial intelligence and IoT Platforms
The Internet of Things (IoT) concept is evolving rapidly and influencing newdevelopments in various application domains, such as the Internet of MobileThings (IoMT), Autonomous Internet of Things (A-IoT), Autonomous Systemof Things (ASoT), Internet of Autonomous Things (IoAT), Internetof Things Clouds (IoT-C) and the Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) etc.that are progressing/advancing by using IoT technology. The IoT influencerepresents new development and deployment challenges in different areassuch as seamless platform integration, context based cognitive network integration,new mobile sensor/actuator network paradigms, things identification(addressing, naming in IoT) and dynamic things discoverability and manyothers. The IoRT represents new convergence challenges and their need to be addressed, in one side the programmability and the communication ofmultiple heterogeneous mobile/autonomous/robotic things for cooperating,their coordination, configuration, exchange of information, security, safetyand protection. Developments in IoT heterogeneous parallel processing/communication and dynamic systems based on parallelism and concurrencyrequire new ideas for integrating the intelligent “devices”, collaborativerobots (COBOTS), into IoT applications. Dynamic maintainability, selfhealing,self-repair of resources, changing resource state, (re-) configurationand context based IoT systems for service implementation and integrationwith IoT network service composition are of paramount importance whennew “cognitive devices” are becoming active participants in IoT applications.This chapter aims to be an overview of the IoRT concept, technologies,architectures and applications and to provide a comprehensive coverage offuture challenges, developments and applications
AWARE: Platform for Autonomous self-deploying and operation of Wireless sensor-actuator networks cooperating with unmanned AeRial vehiclEs
This paper presents the AWARE platform that seeks to enable the cooperation of autonomous aerial vehicles with ground wireless sensor-actuator networks comprising both static and mobile nodes carried by vehicles or people. Particularly, the paper presents the middleware, the wireless sensor network, the node deployment by means of an autonomous helicopter, and the surveillance and tracking functionalities of the platform. Furthermore, the paper presents the first general experiments of the AWARE project that took place in March 2007 with the assistance of the Seville fire brigades
Design Criteria to Architect Continuous Experimentation for Self-Driving Vehicles
The software powering today's vehicles surpasses mechatronics as the
dominating engineering challenge due to its fast evolving and innovative
nature. In addition, the software and system architecture for upcoming vehicles
with automated driving functionality is already processing ~750MB/s -
corresponding to over 180 simultaneous 4K-video streams from popular
video-on-demand services. Hence, self-driving cars will run so much software to
resemble "small data centers on wheels" rather than just transportation
vehicles. Continuous Integration, Deployment, and Experimentation have been
successfully adopted for software-only products as enabling methodology for
feedback-based software development. For example, a popular search engine
conducts ~250 experiments each day to improve the software based on its users'
behavior. This work investigates design criteria for the software architecture
and the corresponding software development and deployment process for complex
cyber-physical systems, with the goal of enabling Continuous Experimentation as
a way to achieve continuous software evolution. Our research involved reviewing
related literature on the topic to extract relevant design requirements. The
study is concluded by describing the software development and deployment
process and software architecture adopted by our self-driving vehicle
laboratory, both based on the extracted criteria.Comment: Copyright 2017 IEEE. Paper submitted and accepted at the 2017 IEEE
International Conference on Software Architecture. 8 pages, 2 figures.
Published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library, URL:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7930218
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