Title: Software-Defined Robotics -- Idea & Approach,
Abstract: The methodology of Software-Defined Robotics hierarchical-based and
stand-alone framework can be designed and implemented to program and control
different sets of robots, regardless of their manufacturers' parameters and
specifications, with unified commands and communications. This framework
approach will increase the capability of (re)programming a specific group of
robots during the runtime without affecting the others as desired in the
critical missions and industrial operations, expand the shared bandwidth,
enhance the reusability of code, leverage the computational processing power,
decrease the unnecessary analyses of vast supplemental electrical components
for each robot, as well as get advantages of the most state-of-the-art
industrial trends in the cloud-based computing, Virtual Machines (VM), and
Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) technologies.