Robot Software Platform for IoT-Based Context-Awareness

Abstract

As Internet of Things (IoT)-based sensors have emerged recently, new technologies are being developed for users to provide suitable services by recognizing the surrounding situations. In the service robot sector, many researches are being carried out in order to exploit the collected data from IoT-based sensors. In addition, researches on robot middleware using context information are actively performed. In this paper, we propose a robot SW platform, which provides IoT-based context-aware services. This robot software platform consists of Ontology Agent, Robot Service Execution Engine, and Context Handler. The Ontology Agent is a module that searches information, such as sensor location, value type, etc., of the IoT devices stored in Ontology Repository and provides them to the Context Handler. The Context Handler reads IoT devices’ data and checks whether service transition conditions are met. If the conditions are satisfied, the data is delivered to the Robot Service Execution Engine, which is in charge of executing services. In experiments, we show a procedure executing the context-aware robot services through definition of robot services, a robot service execution engine, and a context handler, etc.