IoT and Robotics: a synergy
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Emerging Technologies, Robotics
- Keywords
- IoT, IoRT, Cloud Robotics, edge devices, ITS
- Copyright
- © 2017 Roy Chowdhury
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2017. IoT and Robotics: a synergy. PeerJ Preprints 5:e2760v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2760v1
Abstract
The Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) is a concept first introduced by Dan Kara at ABI Research, which talks about augmenting the existing IoT with active sensorization; thereby, opening the doors to novel business ideas, at the intersection of both IoT and Robotics. This position paper considers the synergy between IoT and robotics: it talks about the technologies in IoT that would benefit the robotics domain. The advent of Cloud Robotics and its role in aiding robot functions like sensing, manipulation, and mobility. The paper then discusses the ways in which robots can extend the capabilities of existing IoT infrastructure by acting as a special class of edge device. IoT-aided robotic applications are discussed in various domains like health-care, military, industrial plants and rescue operations. The paper concludes by considering the use case of an Intelligent Transportation System endowed by an IoRT-inspired architecture.
Author Comment
This is a draft version of the research carried out a Lochbridge, Gurgaon as part of the Advanced Solutions Group initiative.