Towards a new cloud robotics approach

Abstract

For many years, robots appear in most fields (industrial, medical, education and military). Recently, the success in computer technology has advanced the the knowledge in creating intelligent robots. The cloud computing has potential to provide significant benefits to robots and automation systems. It enables a remotely processing with an unlimited access to dynamic global datasets and huge amount of computing and networking resources. In this paper, we will propose a new cloud robotics architecture where robots can be provided as a service easily, efficiently and cheaply. we will define a new kind of layer which is the Virtual robot Layer compared with classical cloud computing architecture. This layer consists of two entities : the Robot Management System and the Virtual Robot System.