Issues of perceptual anchoring in ubiquitous robotic systems

• In ubiquitous robotic systems, robots are immersed in an environment containing an abundance of sensors, actuators and smart objects. In such a system, a robot can acquire information about an object from many different sources, possibly including the object itself. While this richness of information opens a new landscape of opportunities, it also adds the fundamental challenge of how to coordinate and integrate all the different types of information which are available. In this paper, we define a general computational framework to address this problem. Our framework is based on an extension of the concept of single-robot perceptual anchoring to the multi-robot case, and it can be applied to any ubiquitous robotics system. To make the framework more tangible, we apply it to a specific type of ubiquitous robotic system, called Ecology of Physically Embedded Intelligent Systems, or PEIS-Ecology. We also describe a sample implementation based on fuzzy logic, and present some illustrative experiments.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences (hsv//eng)

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TECHNOLOGY

TEKNIKVETENSKAP

Information technology

Informationsteknik

Datalogi

Computer and Systems Science

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