Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) concept is evolving rapidly and influencing new
developments in various application domains, such as the Internet of Mobile
Things (IoMT), Autonomous Internet of Things (A-IoT), Autonomous System
of Things (ASoT), Internet of Autonomous Things (IoAT), Internet
of Things Clouds (IoT-C) and the Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) etc.
that are progressing/advancing by using IoT technology. The IoT influence
represents new development and deployment challenges in different areas
such as seamless platform integration, context based cognitive network integration,
new mobile sensor/actuator network paradigms, things identification
(addressing, naming in IoT) and dynamic things discoverability and many
others. The IoRT represents new convergence challenges and their need to be addressed, in one side the programmability and the communication of
multiple heterogeneous mobile/autonomous/robotic things for cooperating,
their coordination, configuration, exchange of information, security, safety
and protection. Developments in IoT heterogeneous parallel processing/
communication and dynamic systems based on parallelism and concurrency
require new ideas for integrating the intelligent “devices”, collaborative
robots (COBOTS), into IoT applications. Dynamic maintainability, selfhealing,
self-repair of resources, changing resource state, (re-) configuration
and context based IoT systems for service implementation and integration
with IoT network service composition are of paramount importance when
new “cognitive devices” are becoming active participants in IoT applications.
This chapter aims to be an overview of the IoRT concept, technologies,
architectures and applications and to provide a comprehensive coverage of
future challenges, developments and applications.
developments in various application domains, such as the Internet of Mobile
Things (IoMT), Autonomous Internet of Things (A-IoT), Autonomous System
of Things (ASoT), Internet of Autonomous Things (IoAT), Internet
of Things Clouds (IoT-C) and the Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) etc.
that are progressing/advancing by using IoT technology. The IoT influence
represents new development and deployment challenges in different areas
such as seamless platform integration, context based cognitive network integration,
new mobile sensor/actuator network paradigms, things identification
(addressing, naming in IoT) and dynamic things discoverability and many
others. The IoRT represents new convergence challenges and their need to be addressed, in one side the programmability and the communication of
multiple heterogeneous mobile/autonomous/robotic things for cooperating,
their coordination, configuration, exchange of information, security, safety
and protection. Developments in IoT heterogeneous parallel processing/
communication and dynamic systems based on parallelism and concurrency
require new ideas for integrating the intelligent “devices”, collaborative
robots (COBOTS), into IoT applications. Dynamic maintainability, selfhealing,
self-repair of resources, changing resource state, (re-) configuration
and context based IoT systems for service implementation and integration
with IoT network service composition are of paramount importance when
new “cognitive devices” are becoming active participants in IoT applications.
This chapter aims to be an overview of the IoRT concept, technologies,
architectures and applications and to provide a comprehensive coverage of
future challenges, developments and applications.