Rapyuta: A Cloud Robotics Platform

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 481-493

  Mohanarajah, Gajamohan ^a   Hunziker, Dominique ^a   D'Andrea, Raffaello ^a   Waibel, Markus ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cloud robotics; cloud based mapping; networked robots; platform as a service (PaaS)

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

CLOUD ROBOTICS; CLOUD-BASED; COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; CUSTOMIZABLE; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY; NETWORKED ROBOT; PROOF OF CONCEPT;

PLATFORM AS A SERVICE (PAAS);

EID: 85027933046     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2014.2329556     Document Type: Article

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