Configuring reusable robot services in a cloud environment

Configuration of software services plays an important role in the design of robots. However, due to the complexity and diversity of the environments for developing robots, it is difficult to share and reuse robot code created by different providers. In this study, we present an ontology-based approach that exploits the standard web interface to develop reusable robotic services. Our approach integrates knowledge ontologies and several service functions for robot control, and focuses on service configuration. In addition, a ROS-based cloud environment is configured to allocate services and to perform service configuration. The proposed approach has been implemented and evaluated, and the results show that it can be used to build composite robotic services successfully.