The study of robot platform for orchestrating and reusing services

Unlike their industrial counterparts, service robots are required to operate under conditions that require a very different approach to development. While industrial robots are required to work in structured environments on very specific tasks, service robots often have to operate in semi or fully unstructured environments working on a variety of tasks to provide usually a wide range of services. Subsequently, the service robot development approach must be considerably different. Our goal is to provide a service oriented development platform that can be orchestrated easily the user or platform developer and also reused from robot to robot with a minimum of porting. This service-oriented robot platform presented here is called ROCOS, implementations of which have been evaluated on the commercial robots iRobiQ and Cafero.