AI Bricks: A Microservices-Based Software for a Usage in the Cloud Robotics

Abstract

In this paper, the structure of cloud-based modular software that employs artificial intelligence algorithms, called as AI Brick, is proposed. Two AI Bricks were implemented, Kohonen Brick implementing Kohonen Self-organized map neural network and MLP Brick implementing Multi-Layered Perceptron. The proposed structure of AI Brick is based on two main ideas of cloud robotics: sharing knowledge and offloading computationally intensive tasks from robot's onboard execution to the cloud environment. As a testbed, we implemented NARA model (Neural network design on Approximate Reasoning Architecture) as a cloud service, which combines the functionality of implemented AI Bricks to solve the most advanced task. We present the way of arbitrary AI bricks interconnection, which allows us to employ a distinct algorithm to simulate or control different systems.