Ubiquitous Spot Service for Robotic Environment

Recently, ubiquitous computing is a hot topic. And, ubiquitous computing brings big benefit for robotics. Distributed computers provide much information to robots. And, distributed sensors help the navigation and manipulation of robots based on the sensor network. Moreover, to distribute the actuators at the environment, environment becomes one of the robots as we call “Ubiquitous Robot”, and physical services and informative services can be provided to the present robot that concentrates necessary functions for one body. Ubiquitous robot can provide some type of services that are not only space but also small area as we call “spot”. In this paper, we propose ubiquitous spot service that is one of the services by ubiquitous robot. And, to realize proposed service, improved wireless sensor network node (UFAM) is introduced, and detail specification of the node is shown.