Cloud robotics platforms: review and comparative analysis

Due to the various advantages that the cloud can offer to robots, there has been the recent emergence of the cloud robotics paradigm. Cloud robotics permits robots to unload computing and storage related tasks into the cloud, and as such, robots can be built with smaller on-board computers. The use of cloud-robotics also allows robots to share knowledge within the community over a dedicated cloud space. In order to build-up robots that benefit from the cloud-robotics paradigm, different cloud-robotics platforms have been released during recent years. This paper critically reviews and compares existing cloud robotic platforms in order to provide recommendations on future use and gaps that still need to be addressed. To achieve this, 8 cloud robotic platforms were investigated. Key findings reveal varying underlying architectures and models adopted by these platforms, in addition to different features offered to end-users

Cloud robotic architectures: directions for future research from a comparative analysis

Advances in robotics and cloud computing have led to the emergence of cloud robotics where robots can benefit from remote processing, greater memory and computational power, and massive data storage. The integration of robotics and cloud computing has often been regarded as a complex aspect due to the various components involved in such systems. In order to address this issue, different studies have attempted to create cloud robotic architectures to simplify representation into different blocks or components. However, limited study has been undertaken to critically review and compare these architectures. As such, this paper investigates and performs a comparative analysis of existing cloud robotic architectures in order to identify key limitations and recommend on the future of cloud robotic architectures. As part of this study, 7 such architectures have been reviewed and compared and results showed limited evaluation of existing architectures in favour of security weaknesses