A new middleware for managing heterogeneous robot in ubiquitous environments

Abstract

Heterogeneity is one of the main issues for the deployment of the Industry 4.0. This is due to the diversity in the available robots and the IIoT devices. These equipments use different programming languages and communication protocols. To make the integration of such equipments easy, we propose TalkRoBots, a middleware that allows heterogeneous robots and IIoT devices to communicate together and exchange data in a transparent way. The middleware was experimented in a real scenario with different robots that demonstrate its efficiency.