The Social Internet of Things and the RFID-based robots

Abstract

Internet of Things allows the interconnection of smart objects, such as mobile robots, wireless sensors, etc., and of human beings, by using different communication protocols and by developing a dynamic multi-modal heterogeneous network. This paper proposes some considerations on cognitive robots based on radio frequency identification technology within Internet of Things, by adding a social dimension to human-robot and robot-robot interactions. Social networks can be used for storing and sharing links to resources of interest for the humanrobot and robot-robot interactions. A Stinger robot-based prototype was built to demonstrate the presented functionalities. The prototype shows that this model is not only flexible, but also practical.