Section: New Results

Robots

Participants : Nathalie Mitton, Valeria Loscri, Anjalalaina Jean Cristanel Razafimandimby.

With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) and robotics on one hand and of Cloud Computing on the other hand, people have witnessed a shift in the way they can interact and communicate with their things and their environment. Together with these main concepts, the vision of Robot as a Service can be considered and applied to different contexts and domains. Unfortunately, Remote programming and control of heterogeneous robots are not always possible, which ends up as difficult tasks requiring advanced skills. in order to face these challenges, Open Mobile Cloud Robotics Interface (OMCRI) has been proposed in [26]. It represents an extension of OCCI platform based on the Robot-as-Service paradigm. OMCRI presents interesting features such as modularity and extensibility.

Another interesting concept recently introduced by ABY Research, is the Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT), representing a dynamic actuation. In [48], to realize an efficient deployment and an effective coverage by also keeping a good communication quality, we have proposed an IoT- based and neural network control scheme. The neural network controller, in turn, is completely distributed and mimics perfectly the IoT-based approach. Results show that our approaches are efficient, in terms of convergence time, connectivity, and energy consumption.