What is networked robotics?

Networked Robotics is an area that straddles robotics and network technology. A robot system controlled via the WWW exploits the Internet network and hence is one realisation of networked robotics. A set of field robots that exploit wireless networks to share and distribute tasks might also be considered an exemplar of networked robotics. But isn’t this just an exemplar of distributed robotics? And if so, what does networked robotics bring to the “robotics” table? These are questions and issues addressed in this chapter. The chapter will propose that networks are at once both enabling and constraining to robotics. They enlarge the scope of the robotics discipline yet introduce challenges that must be overcome if that potential is to be fully realized. In short, when the network becomes a design issue – normally when performance of the system is at a premium – networked robotics is at play.

[1]  G. McKee,et al.  Using the internet to share a robotics laboratory , 1996 .

[2]  Tucker R. Balch,et al.  AuRA: principles and practice in review , 1997, J. Exp. Theor. Artif. Intell..

[3]  Roland Siegwart,et al.  Beyond Webcams: An Introduction to Online Robots , 2001 .

[4]  Gerard T. McKee,et al.  Agent-based control architecture for teleoperation , 1997, Other Conferences.

[5]  Lynne E. Parker,et al.  ALLIANCE: an architecture for fault tolerant multirobot cooperation , 1998, IEEE Trans. Robotics Autom..

[6]  Joo-Ho Lee,et al.  Controlling mobile robots in distributed intelligent sensor network , 2003, IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron..

[7]  Gerard T. McKee,et al.  The maturing discipline of robotics , 2006 .

[8]  Peter Xiaoping Liu,et al.  Data Communications for Internet Robots , 2003, Auton. Robots.

[9]  Raffaello D'Andrea.  The Cornell RoboCup Robot Soccer Team: 1999-2003 , 2005, Handbook of Networked and Embedded Control Systems.

[10]  Gaurav S. Sukhatme,et al.  Using a sensor network for distributed multi-robot task allocation , 2004, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2004. Proceedings. ICRA '04. 2004.

[11]  Hans P. Moravec,et al.  The Stanford Cart and the CMU Rover , 1983, Proceedings of the IEEE.

[12]  Christiaan J. J. Paredis,et al.  Synthesis Methodology for Task Based Reconfiguration of Modular Manipulator Systems , 1993 .

[13]  Ronald C. Arkin,et al.  An Behavior-based Robotics , 1998 .

[14]  Robert J. Anderson,et al.  SMART: a modular control architecture for telerobotics , 1995, IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag..

[15]  Ying Zhang,et al.  Modular Reconfigurable Robots in Space Applications , 2003, Auton. Robots.

[16]  Grady Booch,et al.  Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications , 1990 .

[17]  Hélène Chochon.  Object-Oriented Design of Mobile Robot Control Systems , 1991, ISER.

[18]  A. Makerenko.  Building a Decentralized Active Sensor Network , 2003 .

[19]  Paul S. Schenker,et al.  The Visual Acts model for automated camera placement during teleoperation , 2001, Proceedings 2001 ICRA. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Cat. No.01CH37164).

[20]  Lynne E. Parker,et al.  Guest editorial advances in multirobot systems , 2002, IEEE Trans. Robotics Autom..

[21]  Thomas B. Sheridan,et al.  Telerobotics, Automation, and Human Supervisory Control , 2003 .