Internet of robotic things for mobile robots:Concepts,technologies,challenges,applications,and future directions

作     者：Homayun Kabir Mau-Luen Tham Yoong Choon Chang Homayun Kabir;Mau-Luen Tham;Yoong Choon Chang

作者机构：Department of Electrical and Electronic EngineeringLee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and ScienceUniversiti Tunku Abdul RahmanSelangor 43000Malaysia 

出 版 物：《Digital Communications and Networks》 (数字通信与网络（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2023年第9卷第6期

页      面：1265-1290页

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学科分类：080202[工学-机械电子工程] 08[工学] 0804[工学-仪器科学与技术] 0802[工学-机械工程] 

基　　金：This research was supported by the Ministry of Higher Education,Malaysia(MoHE)through Fundamental Research Grant Scheme(FRGS/1/2021/TK0/UTAR/02/9) The work was also supported by the Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman(UTAR),Malaysia,under UTAR Research Fund(UTARRF)(IPSR/RMC/UTARRF/2021C1/T05) 

主　　题：Multi Robotic System(MRS) Internet of Things(IoT) Internet of Robotic Things(IoRT) Cloud computing Artificial intelligence(AI) Machine learning(ML) Reinforcement learning(RL) 

摘      要：Nowadays,Multi Robotic System(MRS)consisting of different robot shapes,sizes and capabilities has received significant attention from researchers and are being deployed in a variety of real-world *** sensors and actuators improved by communication technologies to powerful computing systems utilizing advanced Artificial Intelligence(AI)algorithms have rapidly driven the development of MRS,so the Internet of Things(IoT)in MRS has become a new topic,namely the Internet of Robotic Things(IoRT).This paper summarizes a comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art technologies for mobile robots,including general architecture,benefits,challenges,practical applications,and future research *** addition,remarkable research of i)multirobot navigation,ii)network architecture,routing protocols and communications,and iii)coordination among robots as well as data analysis via external computing(cloud,fog,edge,edge-cloud)are merged with the IoRT architecture according to their ***,security is a long-term challenge for IoRT because of various attack vectors,security flaws,and *** threats,attacks,and existing solutions based on IoRT architectures are also under ***,the identification of environmental situations that are crucial for all types of IoRT applications,such as the detection of objects,human,and obstacles,is also critically ***,future research directions are given by analyzing the challenges of IoRT in mobile robots.