A framework for multi-robot foraging over the Internet

To be successful in real-world applications, online robots require a high degree of autonomy and local intelligence to deal with both the uncertainties in their surroundings and the arbitrary transmission delay of the Internet. This paper describes our progress in building a new framework for remote operation of multiple online robots, which can be accessed through any Java-enabled browsers. Our approach to the operation of multiple robotic agents remotely through the Internet using a low cost and portable solution is presented. A simulated experiment on multi-robot foraging is discussed. The experiment results show that the proposed approach is easily extended to include more functionality and more robotic agents. The local intelligence and communication of remote robotic agents provides simpler control, stability and steady performance.