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Cyber-physical cloud computing implemented as PaaS

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We describe a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) system for performing multi-customer information acquisition missions on unmanned vehicle swarms operated and maintained by a third party. Customers implement their missions completely unaware of each other and the available vehicle infrastructure. Vehicle swarm providers may add or remove vehicles unnoticed by customers for maintenance, recharging, and refueling. To achieve this, we apply the paradigm of cloud computing to virtualized versions of unmanned vehicles. Our implementation allows the simulation of multi-customer information acquisition missions as well as their execution on real hardware running the robot operating system (ROS).

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      1. cloud computing
      2. cyber-physical cloud computing
      3. mobile robotic networks
      4. sensor networks
      5. spatial computing
      6. vehicle swarms
      7. virtualization

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