Landmark-based robot navigation: A paradigm shift from onboard processing to cloud

Abstract

Cloud robotics is one of the important and upcoming technologies of the twenty-first century. It is in actual fact a computing system which is distributed in nature, and the processing is performed over the cloud, for computation of huge amount of tasks. Cloud services help robots to find its application, both in the indoor or outdoor environment for various purposes in our everyday life. Before the advent of cloud, the robots were mostly independent and performed computation and storage in the onboard computer or microchip. This led to huge overhead on the processing power of the robot. Therefore, the survey is organized around two major aspects of robot navigation, i.e. robotics with onboard information and robotics with cloud infrastructure. This paper highlights the change in the technologies for robot navigation and the benefits of cloud infrastructure.