Cloud-Edge Collaborative Industrial Robotic Intelligent Service Platform

Abstract

With the development of industrial automation and intelligence deepening, industrial robots' installations increase rapidly. The traditional robot operation and management methods are no longer suitable for current requirements. Cloud computing and big data technology together are deemed to form a promising and possible solution to this challenge. From this point of view, this paper proposes a novel industrial robotics cloud platform architecture, and application orchestration and containerized software appliance technology-enabled cloud-edge collaboration mechanism is designed therein. Two exemplary and real-world case studies, supervisory control and data acquisition, and industrial robot predictive maintenance, are further conducted to demonstrate our architecture's generality and versatility.