Managing Collaborative Tasks within Heterogeneous Robotic Swarms using Swarm Contracts

Mallikarachchi, Sanjaya; Dai, Chen; Seneviratne, Oshani; Godage, Isuru S.

doi:10.1109/dapps55202.2022.00014

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“…This solution uses smart contracts and SM encryption technology to ensure the security of data transmission and the immutable nature of private data flows [1,3]. Mallikarachchi et al implemented the collaborative task management of different types of robots through the Swarm Contracts smart contract framework, marking the first practical application of ROS integration with the Ethereum blockchain while maintaining interoperability and trust [4]. Roy et al combined cloud computing and blockchain technologies to use UAVs and unmanned ground vehicles to evaluate unmanned aerial vehicles' safe coordination and autonomous surveillance capabilities, highlighting the importance of multi-robot coordination and modular robots [5].…”

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PrivShieldROS: An Extended Robot Operating System Integrating Ethereum and Interplanetary File System for Enhanced Sensor Data Privacy

Wang,

Chen,

Zheng

et al. 2024

Sensors

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With the application of robotics in security monitoring, medical care, image analysis, and other high-privacy fields, vision sensor data in robotic operating systems (ROS) faces the challenge of enhancing secure storage and transmission. Recently, it has been proposed that the distributed advantages of blockchain be taken advantage of to improve the security of data in ROS. Still, it has limitations such as high latency and large resource consumption. To address these issues, this paper introduces PrivShieldROS, an extended robotic operating system developed by InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), blockchain, and HybridABEnc to enhance the confidentiality and security of vision sensor data in ROS. The system takes advantage of the decentralized nature of IPFS to enhance data availability and robustness while combining HybridABEnc for fine-grained access control. In addition, it ensures the security and confidentiality of the data distribution mechanism by using blockchain technology to store data content identifiers (CID) persistently. Finally, the effectiveness of this system is verified by three experiments. Compared with the state-of-the-art blockchain-extended ROS, PrivShieldROS shows improvements in key metrics. This paper has been partly submitted to IROS 2024.

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PrivShieldROS: An Extended Robot Operating System Integrating Ethereum and Interplanetary File System for Enhanced Sensor Data Privacy

Wang,

Chen,

Zheng

et al. 2024

Sensors

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Blockchain and Emerging Distributed Ledger Technologies for Decentralized Multi-robot Systems

Queralta,

Keramat,

Salimi

et al. 2023

Curr Robot Rep

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Purpose of Review: Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs), particularly blockchain, are paving the way to securing and managing distributed and large-scale systems of autonomous agents. We look into how these technologies are moving out of the lab and into the real world within the robotics field. Recent Findings: Despite the scalability and real-world applicability concerns, new solutions have emerged that show resilience to intermittent connectivity, as well as scalable solutions for managed or permissioned networks. Summary: We present a review on the various use cases that different DLTs can support in multi-robot systems. We argue that the majority of the work to date on open and permissionless blockchains is only applicable to a subset of robotics use cases, with novel DLT architectures and permissioned blockchains driving adoption across industrial and more mature application scenarios.

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Blockchain technology for mobile multi-robot systems

Dorigo,

Pacheco,

Reina

et al. 2024

Nat Rev Electr Eng

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Managing Collaborative Tasks within Heterogeneous Robotic Swarms using Swarm Contracts

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

PrivShieldROS: An Extended Robot Operating System Integrating Ethereum and Interplanetary File System for Enhanced Sensor Data Privacy

PrivShieldROS: An Extended Robot Operating System Integrating Ethereum and Interplanetary File System for Enhanced Sensor Data Privacy

Blockchain and Emerging Distributed Ledger Technologies for Decentralized Multi-robot Systems

Blockchain technology for mobile multi-robot systems

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