Semantic approach to RIoT autonomous robots mission coordination

• Published in: Robotics and autonomous systems Vol. 126; p. 103438
• Main Authors: Nejkovic, Valentina, Petrovic, Nenad, Tosic, Milorad, Milosevic, Nenad
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.04.2020
• Subjects: Autonomous robots; Coordination; Internet of Things; Ontology; Robot sensing systems; Semantic technology; Testbeds; Testbeds; Coordination; Ontology; Robot sensing systems; Internet of Things; Autonomous robots; Semantic technology
• ISSN: 0921-8890; 1872-793X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2020.103438

Internet of Things (IoT) has recently become the key for innovation and progress in many industrial sectors and scientific areas. However, it brings many challenges and issues, such as growing number of connected devices, heterogeneity, amount of generated data, security and privacy issues, interoperability and many others. Since devices not only collect data, but also take actions that affect the environment, device coordination in the context of IoT systems is becoming more and more important, especially if the IoT convergence with robotics, known as “Internet of Robotic Things” (RIoT), is taken into consideration. In novel cyber–physical systems coordination is very important for situations when many devices working parallel have higher potential to achieve the given task more effectively, than a single device operating independently. RIoT experimentation testbeds facilitate development of such cyber–physical systems where devices need to be aware of the environment while interacting with other devices in order to achieve a common goal. In this paper, we propose a semantic-driven framework for automated autonomous robots coordination in the context of RIoT-based experimentation testbeds. Framework for automatic coordinated mission generation within the robotics experimentation platform testbed is evaluated. Results of evaluation are presented and discussed. •Coordinated devices in cyber-physical systems may achieve more than an individual device.•Semantic frameworks facilitate coordination of devices in cyber-physical systems.•Automatic coordinated mission generation for the RIoT-based testbed is evaluated.