Empowering robot with surrounding resources
Xin Jin, Xudong Ma, Xianzhong Dai · 2007
Execution of complicated tasks all by robot itself within the physical and dynamic environment always shows low efficiency, facing the bottle-necks of machine intelligence. Compared with empowering robot with all kinds of functions and intelligence within its body, it is more natural and achievable to empower it with various kinds of resources as tools within its surroundings. Difficulties in realizing this idea are summarized, with emphasized discussion on some key technologies in 5 aspects, inspired from human living habit. As a primary realization of this idea, Web service is introduced in order to build a framework, in which part of the functions and intelligence is transferred from robot to various resources. By this transfer, a low cost single robot is successfully empowered with surrounding resources to accomplish a complicated task.