PEIS Ecology: Integrating Robots into Smart Environments

— We introduce the concept of Ecology of Physically Embedded Intelligent Systems, or PEIS-Ecology. This is a network of heterogeneous robotic devices (PEIS) pervasively embedded in the environment. A PEIS can be as simple as a toaster and as complex as a humanoid robot. PEIS can exchange information at t levels of abstraction, and share both physical and virtual functionalities to perform complex tasks. By putting together insights from the fields of autonomous robotics and of ambient intelligence, the PEIS-Ecology approach explores a new road to building assistive, personal, and service robots. In this paper, we discuss this concept, describe a first realization of it, and show an implemented use-case scenario.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ICRA
• Authors: Mathias Broxvall, Marco Gritti, Alessandro Saffiotti, BeomSu Seo, Young-Jo Cho
• Keywords: Heterogeneous Robotic Devices, ICRA 2006, Implemented Use-case Scenario, PEIS, Robotics