Research and development environments for robot services and its implementation

Abstract

We have proposed the RSi Research Cloud (RSi-Cloud), which enables integration of robot services with internet services. Until now, we have developed a surveillance service using robot cameras on the cloud environment, and have realized internet connection from robots implemented with RSNP (Robot Service Network Protocol). This paper reports a design result of Robot Service HTML interface (RSHi), which is a mechanism to treat robot applications deployed in RSi-Cloud by the same way as RSNP robot clients. RSHi makes it possible to deploy RSNP service applications within firewall systems, and as a result, a robot service expansion can be expected. Moreover, in this paper, we show a usage example of micro-services on a service robot which uses a face detection function.