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CloudThinking as an Intelligent Infrastructure for Mobile Robotics

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Mobile robotics is a transforming field that presents a varying set of challenges. The discussion on the autonomy of (self-powered) robots is not settled, and as the communication infrastructure evolves, centralized concepts become more attractive over distributed concepts. This paper presents the CloudThinking architecture applied to intelligent cloud-based robotic operation. CloudThinking offloads most of complex robotic tasks to a central cloud, which retrieves inputs from the environment as a whole in order to instruct the robots to perform its actions. CloudThinking is a natural approach to the orchestration of multiple specialized robotic systems, defining the best mechanisms for reaching a goal. Furthermore, this architecture provides a set of automatic features which can be useful for application developers. These features can fully exploit novel cloud tools development as it becomes available, providing a time-resilient infrastructure of easy upgrade. The resulting approach has the potential to create a different set of market for robotic application developers.

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  1. Strictly speaking, the rules of robotic soccer require such autonomous architectures, regardless of technical feasibility.

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This work was supported by project Cloud Thinking (CENTRO-07-ST24-FEDER-002031), co-funded by QREN, “Mais Centro” program.

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  1. Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Rui L. Aguiar, Diogo Gomes & João Paulo Barraca

  2. IEETA, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Nuno Lau

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Aguiar, R.L., Gomes, D., Barraca, J.P. et al. CloudThinking as an Intelligent Infrastructure for Mobile Robotics. Wireless Pers Commun 76, 231–244 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-014-1687-1

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