Blockchain Design for an Embedded System

Falcone, Sara; Zhang, Junyi; Cameron, Agnes; Abdel-Rahman, Amira

doi:10.5195/ledger.2019.172

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“…However, there is research already analyzing the impact of this combination in challenging scenarios such as cities, 7 social media, 8 or even outer space. 2 It is expected that these papers can provide researchers with valuable resources and motivations to work on the challenging issues in this new research topic. There is convincing evidence that blockchain technology can play a vital role in assisting robots and cyber-physical systems in becoming accountable, verifiable, and trusted "partners" not only inside factories but in our homes, communities, cities, and even in extraterrestrial operations.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In Falcone et al, a blockchain-based mapping protocol for distributed robotic systems running on embedded hardware is proposed. 2 This protocol was developed for a robotic system designed to move on lattice structures for space applications. Options, trade-offs, and considerations for implementing blockchain technology on an embedded system with wireless radio communication are explored.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Editorial: Proceedings of the First Symposium on Blockchain and Robotics, MIT Media Lab, 5 December 2018

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Pentland

2019

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Section: Summary Of Accepted Papersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Editorial: Proceedings of the First Symposium on Blockchain and Robotics, MIT Media Lab, 5 December 2018

Ferrer

Hardjono

Pentland

2019

ledger

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“…The system is implemented on top of robots running the Robot Operating System (ROS) using the Tendermint consensus protocol. In [63], the authors described the mapping protocol of blockchain for distributed multiple robot systems. The protocol was developed based on designing an embedded system with considering options and trade-offs for implementing blockchain.…”

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Blockchain-Empowered Multi-Robot Collaboration to Fight COVID-19 and Future Pandemics

Alsamhi

Lee

2021

IEEE Access

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This conceptual paper overviews how blockchain technology is involving the operation of multi-robot collaboration for combating COVID-19 and future pandemics. Robots are a promising technology for providing many tasks such as spraying, disinfection, cleaning, treating, detecting high body temperature/mask absence, and delivering goods and medical supplies experiencing an epidemic COVID-19. For combating COVID-19, many heterogeneous and homogenous robots are required to perform different tasks for supporting different purposes in the quarantine area. Managmnt and decentralizing multi-robot play a vital role in combating COVID-19 by reducing human interaction, monitoring, delivering goods. Blockchain technology can manage multi-robot collaboration in a decentralized fashion, improve the interaction among them to exchange information, share representation, share goals, and trust. We highlight the challenges and provide the tactical solutions enabled by integrating blockchain and multi-robot collaboration to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The proposed conceptual framework can increase the intelligence, decentralization, and autonomous operations of connected multi-robot collaboration in the blockchain network. We overview blockchain potential benefits to defining a framework of multi-robot collaboration applications to combat COVID-19 epidemics such as monitoring and outdoor and hospital End to End (E2E) delivery systems. Furthermore, we discuss the challenges and opportunities of integrated blockchain, multi-robot collaboration, and the Internet of Things (IoT) for combating COVID-19 and future pandemics.

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“…Therefore, pursuing a more memory optimized solution while allowing a high rate of transactions, we looked for other solutions. Falcone et al (2019) also studied the performance aspects. The authors designed a new type of blockchain, with a specific protocol, intended for extremely low computation power devices (e.g., space applications).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Falcone et al ( 2019 ) also studied the performance aspects. The authors designed a new type of blockchain, with a specific protocol, intended for extremely low computation power devices (e.g., space applications).…”

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Towards a Blockchain-Based Multi-UAV Surveillance System

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This study describes a blockchain-based multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (multi-UAV) surveillance framework that enables UAV coordination and financial exchange between system users. The objective of the system is to allow a set of Points-Of-Interest (POI) to be surveyed by a set of autonomous UAVs that cooperate to minimize the time between successive visits while exhibiting unpredictable behavior to prevent external agents from learning their movements. The system can be seen as a marketplace where the UAVs are the service providers and the POIs are the service seekers. This concept is based on a blockchain embedded on the UAVs and on some nodes on the ground, which has two main functionalities. The first one is to plan the route of each UAV through an efficient and computationally cheap game-theoretic decision algorithm implemented into a smart contract. The second one is to allow financial transactions between the system and its users, where the POIs subscribe to surveillance services by buying tokens. Conversely, the system pays the UAVs in tokens for the provided services. The first benchmarking experiments show that the IOTA blockchain is a potential blockchain candidate to be integrated in the UAV embedded system and that the chosen decentralized decision-making coordination strategy is efficient enough to fill the mission requirements while being computationally light.

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Blockchain Design for an Embedded System

Cited by 12 publications

References 6 publications

Editorial: Proceedings of the First Symposium on Blockchain and Robotics, MIT Media Lab, 5 December 2018

Editorial: Proceedings of the First Symposium on Blockchain and Robotics, MIT Media Lab, 5 December 2018

Blockchain-Empowered Multi-Robot Collaboration to Fight COVID-19 and Future Pandemics

Towards a Blockchain-Based Multi-UAV Surveillance System

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