Cloud Robotics

Cloud robotics is an emerging field which enables the web enabled robots to access the cloud services on the fly. Cloud Robotics was born by merging robotics with the cloud technologies. The robot intelligence is no more in the robot itself but remotely executed on the cloud. Robot acts as thin-client. There are several frameworks already in development and still growing. With the help of high speed networks using 4G/5G technologies, offloading of computation and storage in cloud is the further step in robotic evolution. This chapter deals the exploration of cloud robotics with its architecture, applications and existing frameworks. Also, existing research carried out is summarized in this chapter. The future challenges are discussed to foresee the opportunities in cloud robotics. It aims for the complete study on how robots leverages the cloud computing.

Cloud Robotics

Cloud robotics is an emerging field which enables the web enabled robots to access the cloud services on the fly. Cloud Robotics was born by merging robotics with the cloud technologies. The robot intelligence is no more in the robot itself but remotely executed on the cloud. Robot acts as thin-client. There are several frameworks already in development and still growing. With the help of high speed networks using 4G/5G technologies, offloading of computation and storage in cloud is the further step in robotic evolution. This chapter deals the exploration of cloud robotics with its architecture, applications and existing frameworks. Also, existing research carried out is summarized in this chapter. The future challenges are discussed to foresee the opportunities in cloud robotics. It aims for the complete study on how robots leverages the cloud computing.

Introduce an Evolutionary Programming Model - A Simulation of the Evolution of DNA Code

Via examining the evolutionary phenomena in biology, it is known that the evolution of life is based on the fact the variation of species is caused by the alteration of the DNA code sequence. If we assume the DNA molecular chain is a program code sequence, similar to the modern computer program code sequence, then the evolutionary phenomenon in biology can be simulated and it will be bring out an Evolutionary Programming Model (EPM). The main idea of this model lies in the two key conception: First is that two copies of the program code sequence in memory were loaded, then put one in the running status and the other in non-running status. Second step, use the reflection calculation to perceive the environment and adjust its functions in the running one. Then use Bytecode Engineering Technology to locate and modify the corresponding code segment of the non-running one, and consequently generate the next version program. This process can be repeated as needed, similar to the evolution of the DNA sequence in Nature. EPM enables the program to "sense" the running environment, to make corresponding adjustments in order to accommodate the running environment, and to generate the new version program at the same time. The EPM model will have widely application prospects in the field of artificial intelligence and is extremely important in guiding the future automatic program design and robotic evolution design.