Cloudroid: A Cloud Framework for Transparent and QoS-aware Robotic Computation Outsourcing
Ben Hu, Huaimin Wang, Pengfei Zhang, Bo Ding, and Huimin Che

TL;DR
Cloudroid is a framework that enables transparent, QoS-aware outsourcing of robotic computations to the cloud, significantly enhancing robot capabilities without requiring code changes.
Contribution
It introduces a novel cloud framework that allows direct deployment of robotic software as cloud services with automatic QoS management, simplifying cloud integration.
Findings
Enhanced robot capabilities without code modification
Guarantees of specific QoS properties like response time
Order-of-magnitude performance improvements in robotic tasks
Abstract
Many robotic tasks require heavy computation, which can easily exceed the robot's onboard computer capability. A promising solution to address this challenge is outsourcing the computation to the cloud. However, exploiting the potential of cloud resources in robotic software is difficult, because it involves complex code modification and extensive (re)configuration procedures. Moreover, quality of service (QoS) such as timeliness, which is critical to robot's behavior, have to be considered. In this paper, we propose a transparent and QoS-aware software framework called Cloudroid for cloud robotic applications. This framework supports direct deployment of existing robotic software packages to the cloud, transparently transforming them into Internet-accessible cloud services. And with the automatically generated service stubs, robotic applications can outsource their computation to the…
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Taxonomy
TopicsRobotics and Automated Systems · Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence · Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
