Interoperability in cooperation systems including multiple kinds of robots

-Standardizing mobility function interface specification-

Abstract

The evolution of robotics technologies has produced many kinds of robots, for example, cleaning robots, guidance robots, and transfer robots. In the future, these robots will coexist in the same public facilities. However, we will not be able to avoid developing these robot systems inefficiently, because most robot products have different interface specifications from each other. To efficiently develop robot systems, RRI (Robot Revolution & Industrial IoT Initiative)’s subcommittee has defined interoperable mobility function interface specification and published it in 2020. In this paper, to extend the specification document, practical systems operating conditions are discussed, and more detailed standard behavior and life cycle of mobile robots system included interface definitions are proposed.