scholarly journals An Experimental Case Study on Edge Computing Based Cyber-Physical Digital Service Provisioning with Mobile Robotics

Author(s):  
Daniel Pakkala ◽  
Jani Koivusaari ◽  
Pekka Pääkkönen ◽  
James Spohrer
Author(s):  
Yuben Qu ◽  
Dongyu Lu ◽  
Haipeng Dai ◽  
Haisheng Tan ◽  
Shaojie Tang ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (5s) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Haoran Li ◽  
Chenyang Lu ◽  
Christopher D. Gill

Fault-tolerant coordination services have been widely used in distributed applications in cloud environments. Recent years have witnessed the emergence of time-sensitive applications deployed in edge computing environments, which introduces both challenges and opportunities for coordination services. On one hand, coordination services must recover from failures in a timely manner. On the other hand, edge computing employs local networked platforms that can be exploited to achieve timely recovery. In this work, we first identify the limitations of the leader election and recovery protocols underlying Apache ZooKeeper, the prevailing open-source coordination service. To reduce recovery latency from leader failures, we then design RT-Zookeeper with a set of novel features including a fast-convergence election protocol, a quorum channel notification mechanism, and a distributed epoch persistence protocol. We have implemented RT-Zookeeper based on ZooKeeper version 3.5.8. Empirical evaluation shows that RT-ZooKeeper achieves 91% reduction in maximum recovery latency in comparison to ZooKeeper. Furthermore, a case study demonstrates that fast failure recovery in RT-ZooKeeper can benefit a common messaging service like Kafka in terms of message latency.


RENOTE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 450-459
Author(s):  
Deivid Eive dos S. Silva ◽  
Aline De Oliveira Sousa ◽  
Marcela R. Oliveira ◽  
Marialina Corrêa Sobrinho ◽  
Eduardo Todt ◽  
...  

Education 4.0 is defined as a student-centered learning model that prepares young for the challenges of the 21st Century, how to deal with emerging technological resources and processes. This case study aimed to encourage 21st Century skills and competencies seen as relevant to Education 4.0, such as teamwork, communication, autonomy, creativity, and innovation. In this study, we analyzed the feedbacks collected to identify which skills were encouraged in undergraduate and graduate students during one semester of the Mobile Robotics discipline, using Project-Based Learning (PBL). Students carried out projects and answered a self-assessment questionnaire about their skills. The qualitative analysis of the case study followed the procedures of the Grounded Theory method. The results indicated that learning based on robotics projects could encourage teamwork, communication, and organization skills.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1275-1284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gopika Premsankar ◽  
Mario Di Francesco ◽  
Tarik Taleb

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-105
Author(s):  
Hany Abdelghaffar ◽  
Mohamed Abousteit

To deliver more value to customers, companies are striving to offer more digital services, and the internet of things (IOT) is the main enabler to maximize such value. However, one of the major challenges companies are facing is digital service integration with other providers, where IoT platform is playing important role to achieve such integration opening door for interoperability within actors in the IoT ecosystem. There have been a little research addressing IoT platforms interoperability from business value perspective, considering technical and non-technical factors as selection criteria to adopt such platforms. This paper uses a case study as a method. To validate the suggested interoperability criteria, interviews were conducted for IoT platform providers and two things providers. It was observed that considering technical factors alone when selecting IoT platform make companies oversee the value technology add to their business as IoT platform is not only about technology but also about business model in which this platform will be operating and the company position and role in IoT ecosystem. The paper contributes by providing criteria to achieve interoperability for IoT platform from both technical and business aspects.


Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 2815
Author(s):  
Xiaohui Zhang ◽  
Shufeng Tang ◽  
Xinhua Liu ◽  
Reza Malekian ◽  
Zhixiong Li

This paper proposes a multi-agent-based collaborative virtual manufacturing environment (VME) to save energy consumption and improve efficiency in the manufacturing process. In order to achieve the high autonomy of the manufacturing system, a multi-agent system (MAS) is designed to build a collaborative VME. In this new VME environment, edge computing is embedded to strengthen the cyber resource utilization and system economy. Moreover, an efficient communication channel between networks is proposed. The subsequent cooperation and collaboration protocols among agents are designed to ensure flexible and process-oriented operations. Furthermore, the fuzzy resolution algorithm is employed to resolve the competition conflicts among function-similar MASs in the distributed manufacturing scenario. Lastly, a simulation and case study are performed to evaluate the performance of the proposed VME in Internet of Things (IoT)-based manufacturing. The analysis results have demonstrated the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed VME system.


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