A Cloud Computing Environment for Supporting Networked Robotics Applications

This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a cloud computing environment for networked robotics. The environment aims to support distributed robotics applications that require large shares of computing resources and very low communication delays. Networked robotics applications are built above these services and run on virtualized environments deployed on processing nodes directly connected to the robotic resources manipulated by the applications. The cloud computing environment offers the REALabs platform according to the Platform as a Service (PaaS) model of cloud computing. Also, we show an approach to evaluate robotic experiments by submitting tasks in a workflow cloud system.