Cloud computing support for the multi-agent robot navigation system

This paper presents a navigation system structure for mobile service robots in the agent-based distributed architecture. The proposed navigation system is a part of the RAPP framework. The RAPP framework is an open-source software platform to support the creation and delivery of robotic applications, which are expected to increase the versatility and utility of robots. All key navigation tasks are defined and divided into separate components. The proper allocation of navigation components, in the fouragent structure of the RAPP infrastructure, enables highdemanding computations offloading and was the main goal of this work. Navigation system components were implemented using ROS framework. Experimental results for the NAO robot executing risks detection task proved the validity of the proposed approach.