Scaling up ubiquitous robotic systems from home to town (and beyond)

Abstract

Ubiquitous robotics is an emerging paradigm in which smart environments are augmented with robots to provide physical and information added-value services to the citizen. We discuss the challenges and opportunities in extending this paradigm from a single environment (home, factory floor) to the scale of a community of homes, a town, or even a network of towns. To this aim, we introduce the concept of multiple robotic ecologies. This poster is a first step in defining a scalable architecture for a hierarchy of robotic smart-home ecologies, and a framework to provide autonomous services in it.