A proxy-based cloud infrastructure for home service robots

With the emerging of cloud computing, a growing body of work is focused on cloud robotics. In this paper, robots and the other devices in home are regarded as service supplier or service consumer and are packaged as RaaS (Robot as a Service) units. We design the RaaS Unit Module and propose a proxy-based cloud infrastructure for the home service robots. In addition, by modeling the disconnection times as a Poisson Process, a simple offloading strategy about whether it is suitable to offload a task to cloud is analyzed. To verify the feasibility of this infrastructure, a specific instruction set is developed to call cloud robot´s service via Lua Programming Language. By using iFLY voice cloud which is a third application, speech recognition is implemented to allow users to call robot service by voice input, which illustrates that this cloud robot can utilize cloud resources.