When Robots Meet Ubiquity and Grid Computing: Pervasive Grid Platform-Based Collaborative Work

Pervasive grid technology has emerged as future trend in research area, which induce new challenges and very promising merging of high performance and ubiquity. However, extending the group work in this new environment remains an important challenge to provide humans with comfortable and adequate pervasive features. Consequently, a given solution would lead to a developed grid support for collaborative work and, thereafter, would conduce to successful supply of enough facilities to reach the real environment. Currently, available pervasive grid solutions do not provide plenty of support to such required environment due to sensing restrictions, classical grid limitations for enabling ubiquity devices as part of heterogeneous resources and diverse constraints on collaborative developments especially related to the scalability of groupware. The purpose of this work is to promote a platform tying together high performance of group-work environment, transparent grid infrastructure dedicated to ubiquitous computing and commodious brace of collaborative groupware and finally diverse frameworks of interactions: human-machine interactions, human-human mediated interactions and human robot interactions. In this paper, we present eRoboRy platform, for: Collaborative Explorer Robots Platform for Remote Reality Discovery. It allows multiple robots, as intelligent devices, to operate collaboratively within a new structure of remote robot environment, which includes multiple operators as well. This research work undertakes to offer a new network of collaborative robots the ability to become thoroughly pervasive and to certify a large interactivity interfaces. This platform addresses the basic and new concept of PCRNet (Pervasive Collaborative Robot NETwork) based on PixRob (Pervasive mIXed reality environment of ROBot), as a remote environment of the deployed robots.