A distributed architecture for Internet robot

Abstract

This paper describes a novel distributed networked architecture for an intelligent robot. It is proposed to address two challenges for an Internet/LAN based robot system: (1) how to utilize the networked resources of perception and computation, and (2) how to realize a dynamic structured and updateable robotic system. In this architecture, a generic distributed robotic framework evolved from hybrid robotic architecture is proposed, to integrate an autonomous robot into a distributed network structure. A distributed computing infrastructure and the spontaneous and PnP connection mechanisms are realized, which implement the scheme of distributed computation and information for the networked robot system.