Learning through sharing and distributing knowledge with application to object recognition and information retrieval

The GrowMeUp project builds an assisted living environment based on a service robotics platform. The platform is able to learn the needs and habits of elderly persons; its functionalities evolve to help them to stay active, independent and socially involved longer. Following the recent interest in cloud-enhanced robotics, we present a general framework used to learn models by sharing and distributing knowledge between a cloud platform and a robots network. We also provide two concrete example services that take advantage of the cloud structure in order to enhance their performance.