The Pluggable Distributed Resource Allocator (PDRA): a Middleware for Distributed Computing in Mobile Robotic Networks

Federico Rossi,Tiago Stegun Vaquero,Marc Sanchez-Net,Maíra Saboia da Silva,Joshua Vander Hook,Federico Rossi,Tiago Stegun Vaquero,Marc Sanchez-Net,Maíra Saboia da Silva,Joshua Vander Hook

We present the Pluggable Distributed Resource Allocator (PDRA), a middleware for distributed computing in heterogeneous mobile robotic networks. PDRA enables autonomous robotic agents to share computational resources for computationally expensive tasks such as localization and path planning. It sits between an existing single-agent planner/executor and existing computational resources (e.g. ROS pa...