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Collaborative Tasks Between Robots Based on the Digital Home Compliant Protocol over UPnP

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The lack of interoperability is one of most important problems in the smart home. As a consequence, the integration of heterogeneous devices into the same system is a very difficult task which usually requires ad hoc solutions. For this reason, different interoperability standards have been proposed during the last two decades. In this paper we use a novel interoperability protocol: Digital Home Compliant (DHC) which is focused on the solution of the interoperability problem between domotic and robotic devices. In particular, we have implemented the DHC-Groups module in a Roomba which allows a robot group (hive) to perform collaborative tasks. Finally, an experiment is shown in order to test the DHC-Groups module and show its possibilities.

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  1. Department of Systems and Automation Engineering, University of Seville, Seville, 41092, Spain

    J. R. de la Pinta, A. Álvarez & J. M. Maestre

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R. de la Pinta, J., Álvarez, A., Maestre, J.M. et al. Collaborative Tasks Between Robots Based on the Digital Home Compliant Protocol over UPnP. J Intell Robot Syst 72, 357–371 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-012-9801-7

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