Using internet of things technology to create a really platform independent robotics framework

Abstract

Control software and platforms for single or cooperative robots are highly complicated because they coordinate and administer the interaction of a variety of distributed and heterogeneous hardware and software components in a dynamic world. While most of such systems built on some uniform middleware or control system for all distributed nodes which come with restrictions in flexibility on several levels, we aim at a more flexible and open architecture of autonomous components in the style of IoT. In this paper, we introduce a platform independent robotics framework based on an IoT technology and protocols. We compare our architecture with other recent approaches and according to fundamental criteria, we discuss advantages and drawbacks.