SaBot: A scalable architecture for Web-enabled Mobile Robots

The paper presents the architecture of an experimental mobile robotic platform, which has beendesigned specifying interoperability between multiple robots as a main objective. In particular,novel software technologies based onWeb services have been exploited in order to support mobilerobots with efficient and extensible messaging, data-sharing and distributed task managementcapabilities. The basic components of the proposed architecture have been implemented andtested on a demonstrative robotic setup, that will be fully described in the paper. However, theaim of the proposal is to contribute to future Web-based interoperability between mobile robotsemployed in either industrial or human service applications.