Towards an Edge-Cloud Platform for Multirobot-Multihuman Cooperation in Urban IoT Ecosystems

Abstract

We envision robots in cities will be increasingly pervasive - forming new computational nodes, connected to each other and to the Internet, adding to the already proliferating mobile, wearable and fixed ubiquitous computing devices. This paper discusses the notion of cooperation schemes to enable such urban robots to work together with each other, with IoT devices and with humans in different modes, and outlines prototype distributed middleware we are building towards this end.