Internet of Robotic Things: Concept, Technologies, and Challenges

Abstract

Internet of Things allow massive number of uniquely addressable ''things'' to communicate with each other and transfer data over existing internet or compatible network protocols. This paper proposes a new concept which tackles the issues for supporting control and monitoring activities at deployment sites and industrial automations, where intelligent things can monitor peripheral events, induce sensor data acquired from a variety of sources, use ad hoc, local, and distributed ''machine intelligence'' to determine appropriate course of actions, and then act to control or disseminate static or dynamic position aware robotic things in the physical world through a seamless manner by providing a means for utilizing them as Internet of robotic things (IoRT). Although progressive advancements can be seen in multi-robotic systems, robots are constantly getting enriched by easier developmental functionalities, such vertical robotic service centric silos are not enough for continuously and seamlessly supporting for which they are meant. In this paper, a novel concept-IoRT is presented that highlights architectural principles, vital characteristics, as well as research challenges. The aim of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the architectural assimilation of IoRT and identify important research directions on this term. Internet of things, IoRT, robotics, cloud. INDEX TERMS

Towards IoT-Aided Human–Robot Interaction Using NEP and ROS: A Platform-Independent, Accessible and Distributed Approach

“…NEP is a Robotics platform support. According to the definition classification done in [38] NEP is a IoRT robotics platform. Unlike ROS and YARP that provide a large variety of tools and algorithms for low-level development in robotics (e.g., simulators, inverse kinematic and planners), NEP focuses only on communication and the monitoring of data.…”

Interaction of Mechatronic Modules in Distributed Technological Installations

“…This direction, called the Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT), is aimed at implementing robotic technologies, by extending the functionality of IoT devices. In [18], the IoRT concept is presented, which emphasizes the tremendous flexibility in developing and implementing new applications for networked robotics while achieving the goal of providing distributed computing resources as the main utility. In these network associations (IoT and IoRT), the term "Internet" can be interpreted as a global association of computer networks that use TCP/IP protocols when interacting with each other.…”

Ontologies for Industry 4.0

“…I4.0 integrates also the state of the art of communication technologies such as cloud (Xu, 2012;Xie et al, 2017), IoT (Cagnin et al, 2018;Wan et al, 2018a) with the new trends of evolved intelligent industrial technologies, such as new-generation intelligent agents (Kannengiesser & Muller, 2013), Internet of Robotics Things (Ray, 2016), Augmented Reality. and Virtual Realty (Flatt et al, 2015;Ivaschenko et al, 2018).…”