A Knowledge Sharing P2P System between Robots Using JXTA-Overlay

The design of an efficient collaborative multirobot framework that ensures the autonomy and the individual requirements of the involved robots is a very challenging task. This requires designing an efficient platform for inter-robot communication. P2P is a good approach to achieve this goal. P2P aims at making the communication ubiquitous thereby crossing the communication boundary and has many attractive features to use it as a platform for collaborative multi-robot environments. We have implemented a P2P system based on JXTA Overlay. In this paper, we use JXTA Overlay as a platform for robot collaboration and knowledge sharing. We evaluated the knowledge sharing system by many experiments. Experimental results have shown that the proposed system has a good performance and can be used successfully for knowledge sharing between robots.