This document discusses a FIWARE-based robot management platform called RoboEcBaseTM. It summarizes that the coming aging society will require reliance on service robots for daily life support. The platform aims to realize collaboration between robots, people, and environments to improve productivity and support the elderly effectively. The platform uses FIWARE and Kubernetes and has been implemented and tested. It is open source on GitHub and will be contributed as a FIWARE enabler.

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Nov. 28th, 2018
Expert of Strategic Technology Center
Nobuyuki Matsui ( matsui.nobuyuki@Es.co.jp )
FIWARE-based Robot Management PlaPorm
~ RoboEcBaseTM ~
FIWARE Global Summit Malaga 2018

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IntroducEon
We provide a robot plaPorm to collaborate and coexist
various robots with us based on FIWARE.
Today’s presentaEon outline.
l About us
l Why we realize a Robot PlaPorm?
l Technical topics of our Robot PlaPorm
l Experiment to prove our Robot PlaPorm

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About us
As a FIWARE Gold member
We, TIS Inc. is one of leading system integrators in Japan.
We have been joined FIWARE FoundaEon on June 13th, 2018.
Company Name TIS Inc.
Founded April 28, 1971
Established April 1, 2008
Paid-in Capital ¥ 10.0 billions
Net sales Consolidated : ¥ 405,648 millions
Non-Consolidated : ¥ 168,654 millions
Number
of Employees
Consolidated : 19,877
Non-Consolidated : 5,299

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Why we realize a Robot PlaPorm?

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The trends of working-age populaEon
The coming unprecedented ageing society
The working-age populaEon is quickly shrinking in Japan.
(Almost 28% of Japan’s total populaEon was 65 or older in 2018.)
We cannot avoid to rely on the service robots in our daily life.
hbps://data.oecd.org/pop/working-age-populaEon.htm

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The gap between ideal and reality toward service robots
Ideal of Service Robots:
• improve our producEvity
• support and watch over elderly people
Reality of Service Robots:
• exist not much to help our daily complicated tasks
One of this reasons:
The service robots are currently unconsidered communicaEng with
heterogeneous robots made by different manufacturers.
Therefore, a high funcEonality and complicated robot is required
although the collaboraEon of various simple robots is effecEve.

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The concept of our Robot PlaPorm
CollaboraEon of Robots, People and Environments:
• keeps service robots simple by off-loading unexpected and unusual
tasks to human beings
• enables the service robots to decide its acEon beyond its own
limited informaEon by using environments
Robots People
Environments
Collabora've
Robot
Pla.orm

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Technical topics of our Robot Platform

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The essenEal items of our Robot PlaPorm
FIWARE and Kubernetes
Our Robot PlaPorm has two essenEal items. One is FIWARE and the
other is Kubernetes.
https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/kubernetes-basics/deploy-app/deploy-intro/ hbps://www.fiware.org/developers/
FIWARE Kubernetes

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What is Kubernetes? Why we use it?
A de facto standard for OSS container orchestraEon
Today, Kubernetes has become a de facto standard container
orchestrator.
Highly advanced infrastructure powered by Kubernetes
Because Kubernetes hides the durable and effecEve but complicated
infrastructure, we can easily use the highly advanced infrastructure
powered by Kubernetes if we ride a Kubernetes way.
Once you wrote, you can run on any infrastructure
Once we wrote a definiEon files to deploy our Robot PlaPorm, we can
deploy it on any Kubernetes. We no longer need to worry about
hardware or cloud.

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The architecture of our Robot PlaPorm
Orion, IotAgent, Cygnus and Business Logics
Our Robot PlaPorm uses FIWARE Orion, IotAgent and Cygnus.
In addiEon, our Robot PlaPorm has some logics to handle contexts.
Message Queue
Data collecEon (Cygnus)
elasEcsearch Business Logics
API Gateway Auth
mongodb
Context Broker (Orion)
IoT Device Management (IotAgent-UL)
Monitoring
Logging
Web UI
Business Logics Business Logics
ROS bridge
Kubernetes
AMQP
MQTTS MQTTS MQTTS

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As an contributor
Our Robot PlaLorm is open-sourced
Our Robot PlaPorm has been open-sourced
on Github. Please see below repository:
hbps://github.com/tech-sketch/roboEcbase-core
Our Robot PlaLorm will be a FIWARE Enabler
We will apply and contribute our Robot PlaPorm as a Generic Enabler
or a Domain Specific Enabler.

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Experiment to prove our Robot PlaPorm

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The experiment with University of Aizu
How this experiment goes
Please show a short video of our experiment.
hbps://youtu.be/D9NPxxYgPa0

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The experiment with University of Aizu
The guidance of visitors using heterogeneous robots
We and University of Aizu have been performed an experiment to
guide a visitor by collaboraEng with heterogeneous robots, IoT devices
and people through our Robot PlaPorm on Nov. 6th - 8th , 2018.
recepEonist
visitor
guide robot
a guide robot takes a visitor to his/her desEnaEon autonomously
a guide robot takes a visitor to his/her desEnaEon autonomously
private
A guide robot leads visitors to their
desEnaEon at 1st and 2nd floor.
When the staff receives a noEficaEon,
he / she meets the visitor.
LED indicates the
desEnaEon
2F
1F

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Summary

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Summary
The coming ageing society and service robot
We have to deal with the coming unprecedented ageing society.
In that society, we cannot avoid to rely on the service robots in our
everyday life.
The collaboraEon of robots, people and environments
The collaboraEon of robots, people and environments will help us to
improve our producEvity and to support the elderly people effecEvely.
Our Robot PlaPorm is aimed to realize this concept.
Our Robot PlaLorm will be ready to use
We have been developed a Robot PlaPorm and performed an
experiment to probe our concept.
Our Robot PlaPorm has been open-sourced on Github and we will
make it a FIWARE Enabler. Please try if you are interested in.

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Contact us
Email:
fiware@ml.Es.co.jp
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