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A Robotic Service Framework Supporting Automated Integration of Ubiquitous Sensors and Devices
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- Authors
- Young Guk Ha, Joo Chan Sohn, Young Jo Cho, Hyun Soo Yoon
- Issue Date
- 2007-02
- Citation
- Information Sciences, v.177, no.3, pp.657-679
- ISSN
- 0020-0255
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Language
- English
- Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- In recent years, due to the emergence of ubiquitous computing technology, a new class of networked robots called ubiquitous robots has been introduced. The Ubiquitous Robotic Companion (URC) is our conceptual vision of ubiquitous service robots that provides its user with the services the user needs, anytime and anywhere, in the ubiquitous computing environments. There are requirements to be met for the vision of URC. One of the essential requirements is that the robotic systems must support ubiquity of services. This means that a robot service must always be available even though there are changes in the service environment. More specifically, a robotic system needs to be interoperable with sensors and devices in its current service environments automatically, rather than statically pre-programmed for its environment. In this paper, the design and implementation of an infrastructure for URC called Ubiquitous Robotic Service Framework (URSF) is presented. URSF enables automated integration of networked robots in a ubiquitous computing environment by the use of Semantic Web Services Technologies. © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
- KSP Keywords
- Networked Robots, Robot Service, Robotic Services, Robotic system, Semantic web services, Sensors and Devices, Service Framework, Service environment, Service robots, Ubiquitous computing environment, Ubiquitous sensors