A Semantic Framework for Design-Time RIoT Device Mission Coordination

A significant number of publications has demonstrated that a synergy of collective is more powerful than a single unit of the collective. Despite the fact that a single-unit system can execute its task with relatively strong performance, some tasks might be too complex or even impossible for a single unit, especially when it comes to spatially separated tasks. The coordination behavior of a collective of devices is a possible solution for achievement of certain goals more effectively particularly in the case when devices operate within the same environment. In this paper, detection of candidate coordination points for missions of experimental robotic and IoT devices is addressed by means of semantic technologies. The detection of coordination points for a set of given missions is important because it can be further utilized for automatic code generation for coordinated device missions. The detection can be performed at either design-time, run-time or both. In this paper, we put emphasis on design-time semantic analysis of mission definition written in a domain-specific language and propose a coordination process model. As a proof of concept, scenarios for unmanned vehicle coordination in RT-ART testbed of RAWFIE remote experimentation platform based on the proposed architecture are implemented and presented.