Architecture of an autonomous robot at the it level

Abstract

The paper proposes an architecture for a control system of an autonomous robot as well as an architecture for a multi-robot system in which the robots cooperate in order to accomplish client’s tasks. The solution is based on the SOA paradigm and an ontology as a way of representing an environment, and is specified at the Information Technology level. This approach is focused on intuitive cooperation with a human and automation of a task execution, as well as automation of handling exceptions and changes in the environment. For the purpose of the test scenarios, a sample ontology was created, which allows the human user to define tasks to be performed by a robot. Additionally, a simulation environment was designed and implemented in Unity. It allows for automatic generation of the visual representation of information defined in the ontology, and for testing the effectiveness of the proposed architecture in different types of scenarios with variable sets of services (devices).