A web services based solution for the NAO robot in cloud robotics environment

Abstract

Since a few years, the development of robots introduced the Cloud Computing paradigm in robotics field as “Cloud Robotics” generation. This new concept allows robots to outsource computing capabilities over the Cloud, whither the Computing involves extra power requirements that could reduce the duration of the process. In this paper, we outline a new Cloud Robotics architecture for NAO robots. Based on Robot Operating System (ROS) middleware, this approach integrates Web services technologies in a Cloud Computing environment, in order to enable Nao robots to consume their packages as an on-demand solution (as a service).